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

I don't think the CF is obstructing the entrance and exit though - he's parking parallel with the drive but creeping his front wheel on to do it. I don't think he's parking across a drop down at all.

If it's your next door neighbour then they are just parking close to their house, unless they have actually said they are trying to teach you a lesson then I can't see why you think that they are, OP. That's a very extreme point of view! No, the neighbour shouldn't be doing it but it is unlikely to be an all-out personal war against you.

You should have gone round and woke the neighbour up and left your OH in bed. He won’t like that to happen too often. Try and keep on good terms as spats with neighbors can turn nasty. As an earlier post said. Act like adults.

Waiting for what’s happened now your OH has gone round.

Agree Cotswold, having looked at the diagram, he is just following your parking line, if perhaps slightly onto your land, and you should be able to reverse back directly across (or is that someone else's drive?) To avoid that park closer to the edge and leave a wider gap between cars or the other side. Do you typically park as per diagram or the earlier photo? Does your drive enter the road at the end of the blocks or do you own part of the tarmac area as part of your drive? I had previously thought the tarmac was a public pavement over which you had access only but perhaps not.

OP, while I understand your anger and upset about this, I will only give you 5/10 for explaining the situation fully. LOL.

There is much confusion about your driveway exit and entrance. I think you owe it to us to provide a PROPER diagram and preferably a satellite view so we can continue ranting on your behalf here.

We are with you all the way, but the entire situation is quite vague. Especially if you and dp are able to park on your drive parallel to the road where CFN parks. How do you get in, is it only when he is not there, come on..... give us more clues.

Hope all hell hasn't broken out on your street after your DH went round, OP...

It looks like a normal drive running next to the house that has a diagonal entrance with a dropped kerb that you would pull onto like a normal drive.

In retrospect if your DP had blocked him in when he was in your drive (and got the bus to work/work from home) you'd have killed his shitty behaviour at the outset.

Now you have winter weather approaching you can hope that starting and moving his car every time he blocks you will knacker the battery. If he gets a flat battery be sure to help him push it out the way (but don't offer him a jump start) .

If you do go round don't be all "Excuse me could you move your car please" just ring sticky finger on the bell , say "You need to move" turn and walk to your car.

I'm tempted to buy a plug ugly truck with more dents than paint and a towbar and just reverse with gay abandon from my drive .

Maybe move your cars to block him in. Or block his driveway with yours. When challenged explain that life doesn’t have to be this way and you’d rather it wasn’t. But if he insists on parking inconsiderately so will you.

I think putting some of those balls made out of concrete? Along the edge where he parks might be the answer.
If he runs into one of those it will damage his car and they look quite nice.
They are like bollards but solid and not ugly.
Then it won't inconvenience you and will only damage his car, unless he smashes completely into one of them which would serve the f*** right.

Plastic tub and bricks sounds ideal in that corner where his wheels are.

Well dp went to have a word. Too little too late as he's buggered off somewhere in the car for a few hours. I have parked my car where he was parked and dp has parked across the whole drive. When he's back he will probably just park right beside me.

I am very confused by the picture but could you both park at a 90 degree angle to how you currently park, surely then he wouldn't park there?

This is a different pic of someone else blocking. The current offender has actually done this but his wheels are on the drive. If I park the same way as the white car it just parks next to mine with the wheels on the drive. If I park as I am in the picture he blocks me in.

Which confusing picture/diagram are we on now?

FGS I don't remember seeing a white car in any pic so far. I am too tired to scroll back now.

Apologies OP, the pic didn't appear in your last post until now.

Is there room for you to reverse a little and turn ? Park parallel in reverse ? It may be annoying but you seem to be set on it being a problem but it needn't be if you always park alongside your dh car.

The white car is my dps

I honestly can't explain it any better

When you park can you reverse right back leaving a big gap between dps car and not giving him room to park on the road behind you?

Try drawing a diagram. This is tedious.

If you really can't figure it out with what the OP has posted, then that's not the fault of the OP. The last pic is quite clear.

Sorry OP, I have no advice, but have been in the same situation before, some people just don't care.

I hope you manage to get it sorted quickly.

I don't understand how people don't understand the photos? If I could be bothered I'd draw my own diagram for you lot 😂

My drawing skills are horrific so would probably make everything ten times more confusing

It was probably the diagonal part that was confusing people but you've explained the best you can.

At the end of the day regardless of the set up, they are blocking your access, your drop kerb and they shouldn't be.

It's hardly difficult to understand.