to wake my neighbours up at 6.30 as they parked blocking my drive

[marryj]

I don't actually need my drive now, but I'm pretty annoyed and will be leaving soon but want to make sure they are not blocking it when I'm back this afternoon.

I know its silly but it bugs the hell out of me that they often park over it

The op's insurance details are immaterial to the neighbour's parking spot. It is her driveway (with I presume, a dropped kerb). You are not supposed to block it. Even if the dropped kerb is shared with another, her access and exit should not be blocked off. I guess that is why the op was not parked there herself, as she did not want to block the other part of the kerb/drive.

Worse than that cinders as I said pages ago it made no difference to the price, but the blunt tools and their insurance happily ignored it.

I like how no one was prepared to answer the question how often do I need to use my driveway before I lose access to it.

I wrote a note in the end and they were out when I was back.

I don't think you can 'lose access' to your driveway, can you?

Other people being able to park in front of it doesn't affect your access rights, just whether you're able to access it at a particular time.

I think it wouldn't be lawful for someone to put a permanent fixture like a building in front of it though, if that helps.

It's daft how a thread about having the audacity to want to sometimes use your own drive turned you into an insurance fraudster, marry.

How the feck did that happen?!

PS I'll answer the question about how often you need to use your drive before you lose access to it: imo, anytime between once (in the entire time you own the property) to hourly.

I came home one day to find that someone had parked on my drive to go to a church service (I knew whose car it was so I knew where they were - I live in "that" kind of village). The church is just around the corner from my house and I went round and aked the vicar at the end if she could remind the congregation not to park on my drive as it was not an informal church car park.

I recall when I was a child the priest used to repeatedly ask people to park considerately when not in the car park.

One time someone living near by had (rightly) had enough of being blocked in and walked in to the church (during the service) and said in a loud and clear voice 'could the person who has parked in front of my driveway remove it now, the registration is xxxxx'

I paraphrase as it was a very long time ago, but he was quite clear. Ever since then it's never failed to amaze me just how inconsiderate some people are when it comes to parking their car.

The whole ridiculous insurance fraud accusation on this thread is evidence of just how far people will go to justify their inconsiderateness

The clues here are the OP can't access her drive easily, car bumping into bushes, gates not wide enough. Plus she hasn't confirmed there is a dropped kerb?
The reason the neighbour parked where they did is because there is no clear driveway. It's one of those cases where someone's cemented their front garden.

Er, Florence do you know the OP? Have you seen her drive?

No probably been a bit mean here, sorry OP apologies if not true in your case. I have a neighbour like this. They don't have a drop kerb but concreted front garden, left fence, (it opens up). People park in front because they don't realise. Then neighbour gets annoyed.

Florence
. There is a garage behind it so no one knows if they might be blocking in a car and really pisses me off the few times a month I come home to find out I can't park on my own driveway
OP has said she has a garage, this is a drive in front of the garage

What??

You can't park over a dropped kerb regardless of how often you perceive someone to be using it. What about when you go out and return, are you suppose to park elsewhere, get out, ask neighbour to move then move your car because people seem to be under the impression that anyone else can park over an empty driveway. Never heard that in RL. Sometimes this place is a parallel universe!

OP, I'd make a point of using my driveway all the time so the rude neighbours get the point that they can't block it. There is no need if they have a perfectly usable drive anyway so they are just being twats.