Neighbours bullying us (parking)

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Moved in two months ago. On a Sunday afternoon I found someone had parked on my driveway next to my car, under the private parking sign. My partner came home and couldn't get on the drive. I wrote a note which was ignored so dp went and found him and he moved it.
Fast forward a month later. The same house different car has parked just the front wheels of their car on our driveway. This has went on for a week.
Last night I drove nose in so he didn't do it and he's now blocked my car in and still parked on the drive.
I have work this morning.
Dp is going round to chat to him later.
I'm heart broken. I feel totally bullied by these ignorant twats and we have just moved in. Trying to get the house lovely and do it up and we have these twats making life a misery.
Can I go to the police about this if it doesn't stop?
He's clearly doing it on purpose. There are other spaces to use and they have their own driveway too.
Included pic of the driveway when it's clear

Other people have given you good advice about the parking. I've got some about being bullied.

I'm heart broken. I feel totally bullied by these ignorant twats and we have just moved in.
For your MH you've got to play the long game here. If you let them get away with it you will feel victimised and broken. If you stand up to them until they stop then you'll feel confident and strong. I expect you want to get to that second feeling not the first. You have to give them nothing, not an inch, block them at every opportunity. Your mantra should be something like "Oh no you don't mate!"

Years ago just after we first moved into this house we came home to find a large van in our drive . Went to NDN who admitted it was their’s but said that lady who lived in House before us didn’t drive so let them leave van in her drive ! I explained that we would be using our drive so the van had to be moved . They were not happy. Said that neighbours didn’t like can in street and they didn’t want to put it in their drive as their car would have to be on steeet and they weren’t keen on that ! It was bizarre that they thought we were unreasonable. They tried it again a few times and each time we repeated the same message. Cheeky Fuckers. Good luck OP.

Do you own or rent .If you rent you need to speak to your landlord .If you own then get your deeds and then you need to speak to them calmly but firmly .They may be ignorant of the fact or they may be trying it on and seeing if they can get away with it .If they are trying it on then you need to be firm , just repeat it is our property you have no right to park there. Sounds bit strange but practice in the mirror if you are worried about talking to them,no one wants to fall out with neighbours but doesn't mean you should allow someone to take liberties .Do you have legal advice on your housr insurance some policies include it .Start as you mean to go on show you are not going to put up with their trying it on .Good luck .

I don't think I'm over reacting saying I'm heart broken. I've just moved in. High hopes for our home and realising a family here. Twice we have had words with them about the driveway already. I don't want to get in for a tit for tat falling out situation already. Their whole family live in this street.

I've had a similar situation. It's hard but you have to get angry. Think "cheeky fucker" every time!

Mine is the green car. Dps car is in front of mine. Twats car blocking me in.
His wheels are on my driveway. I can park he other way so he's not blocking me in but I can't drive straight on to my drive and his wheels are constantly on it. It's still there

Go round & tell him to move his car or you’ll call the police 😡

Technically you are parked partly on the pavement. Could you enter at a slightly different angle and manoeuvre around his front, assuming the drop kerb continues.

If he is parking over your drive, you or your partner need to go round and get them to move it each and every time. Try and have a conversation about why they think they can park like this. It is pretty standard knowledge that you can't park over other people's driveways so there must be some reason they are doing this.

Could you draw a diagram please op? Which bit is the pavement?

I'm not parked on the pavement. I'm parked on my drive and my back wheel is slightly on the road. It's only like that so he wouldn't park there but he has and now blocked me in. You can't see but his two back wheels are on my driveway.

I cant make head nor tail od this from the picrures. Is the paved bit ypur drive and the flat the road? You say blocked you in and then he isn't as you can come in from the side. From the two picture s it lookes like you have enough room for two cars side by side and he is parking on road but you can still get out from the side. I may be off here I just cant tell from the photo s.

Photos are confusing

I thought blocking you IN is a police matter.

Diagram. Note when my car is parked the other way with its bum facing out on the road he is blocking me so I can't reverse. The only way I can get out is to get dp to move his car.

Good grief why do Knobs do this stuff.. is he like bored or lacking in brains cells... WTF

get the Police round.. and paint the road at your drive that shows no parking is permitted as it's blocking the drive entrance...

Don’t know if I’m being thick but none of the diagrams so far have helped me understand.. I don’t get it.

To put it simply. His two back wheels are on a bit of my driveway. The rest of his car is on the road. I can come into my driveway and reverse in to it but i can't just drive in because he is blocking the side of it.

The last diagram does look as if it's possible to reverse out around neighbour!

I don't want his wheels on my driveway. It's mine and dps. We pay a mortgage on the house with a driveway not a shared driveway. I want to be able to drive into the driveway without restrictions and nearly hitting someone else's car.
They have their own driveway to fit three cars but they have five.

He's probably had a relationship with the previous owners that went "Can you just shift yer car Mike" "Oh yeah no problem!" especially as you say there's alot of the family on the road, they maybe just shifted their family's cars to suit?

Well that doesn't apply now. It doesn't work now.

I am destined to put up with a behemoth motor directly opposite, its legally parked /taxed but its a bugger to get 2 cars on the drive (I have one car so if there's a visitor its a performance) our road is really narrow.

I always reverse in though.

on your behalf.

Why don’t you park so that you take up whole of your drive so that There is no space for him to put his back wheels on it.

A Penguin bollard on that corner bit would sort it?

Strawberry that's what I did but he just parked right behind my car so I was totally blocked in. Dp had to get up at 7am to move his car so I could get to work.

OP, it's unusual to have a drive that leads directly to the road - most have to cross the pavement or a public space at some point to access it. That's why a PP said it looked like the wheel of your car was on the pavement.

Is this someone you live next door to, so if the car is parked a little further forward so the wheels are not on your drive then he blocks his own? It's hard to get a picture of the problem from your photos.

It is massively annoying but to say heart-broken does come across as being dramatic - parking issues can be draining but it's just one thing so don't let it spoil your new house for you. Is this the first house that you have bought?