To butter the windscreen of the car blocking my drive

[Woodburningsuz]

I don't have a car so don't used my drive often, however when having deliverys or being dropped off with lots of stuff its great to get the car right he g to the front door.

As I don't used it often people keep parking over it. I would ask them to move it but its more Hassel than just parking on the road and unloading. I do mention it in passing of leave a note on the window.

They have left their car parked over my drive all weekend. I've told them not to do this, even though I don't need to access it until tomorrow morning and they will have probably gone to work it is still pissing me off that its there now.

OP can you clarify if the car.is parked on the road, blocking your driveway entrance, or if it is parked on your actual driveway?

The council have started ticketing cars in my road which are parked on dropped kerbs. There is a small section of pavement/road parking which is mostly fine if people don't take the piss. I suspect someone has complained because in eight years of living here, I've never seen a warden until recently.

Patking across a dropped kerb when there is no car on it is not an offence.
Otherwise, dropped kerbs would effectively selfishly 'reserve a bit of the road for yourself even if you do not need it' , which you can't do.

If you don't have a car then what is the problem really, I mean you don't need the drive do you? They are being a little inconsiderate but none of that gives you an excuse to do something which has the potential to cause an accident.

This must mean the council illegally stole my car and blackmailed me for £250 before they'd return it.

There was no car on the drive and I was marginally over it. They do this all the time so how are they getting away with it then?

It is an offence to obstruct entry or exit.
Ring the council they can issue fines.
It is not an offence if you are sitting in the vehicle or have the owners permission.
It is also obstructing disabled or prams/cycles for exiting the road safely.

www.drivingtesttips.biz/dropped-kerb-parking.html

Waste of good food IMO.

Dropped kerbs are also supposed to be for wheelchair access. That's where I got a parking ticket, on a side road where walking pedestrians would cross and wheelchair users should be able to cross.

I didn't realise that until I got the ticket and then it made sense and I felt guilty. So it's not always about ' selfishly reserving a bit of the road for yourself even if you don't need it'.

As far as I know, that's why it can be legally enforceable and should be.

Tywin were there painted bays on the road with the dropped kerb? At DM's if you don't park exactly in a bay then the wardens have the car removed. (They take a photo first to show where the car is outwith the bay). Cars get towed away all the time.

No road markings at all. This man whose house its outside is notorious for having cars towed who park there and are even slightly over, he has a sensor and a camera! The council provided me with photos. Not even part of my wheel was over the dropped area. The boot was over the side bit where the drop expands out, iyswim.

OP, I am sure it is entirely possible you could report this person, given the fast action our council took with my 'offence'!

How on earth could anybody tell whether somebody did or didn't need access to their own driveway? You'd have to be monumentally selfish to block a private driveway and I'm astounded that it might be perfectly legal. Are homeowners with disabilities, who not only need convenient parking but also spent money to ensure it, supposed to paint their own drive in blue with signs so would-be parking wankers might realise that they should keep clear?

I think you need to make it a hassle for them to do it. Just going and knocking on their door every time they do it might do the trick - it's non violent and would just make it a properly unattractive option for them as they would get a knock on the door and have to go and move it every time.

Or get a neighbour you like to park on there quite often, someone you know and like and can trust to move their car when you want them to - that way they are blocking someone in and you can get their car towed away

I really wouldn't. Chances are, things will escalate badly. You'll leave your house to find your front door slathered in butter, you'll have to find out where they live and cover their entire frontage in butter, they'll retaliate by covering your kids school in butter... Does your supermarket stock enough butter for all this?!