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

So from the photo-

yours is the green car? Hedge on your right (drivers door) road on your left?
Your DP car is facing the hedge perpendicular to yours?
And CF NDN in the silver car?

They probably think you can reverse/forward/reverse and exit the space to your left , into the road.
But you shouldn't have to do a 37 point turn to get out of your space !

Would they block your DP in ? Or just your car?

You need to move them every time. If you go through the rigmarole of moving your car/DPs car/ they'll just let you and think its ok.

Bloody hell OP. I would find that really annoying too.

As others have said, if they carry on parking there after your DP has spoken to them, first try parking across your driveway yourself for a while to see if they find a new favourite place. If that doesn't work, you can try photographing them every single time (on your phone so it should record time and day), then try contacting your local council and community police. They may ticket or tow the car if you can prove that it is a frequent problem.

That’s so shitty. They’re definitely bullying you, could you report them to the council?

OP you need a better picture of the full outside space including road and drive from your house from an upstairs window perhaps?? It's not making much sense. Instead of scribbling out whole cars etc just cover number plates then at least we can see better??

Could you reverse a bit and park where they're parking? Or would you be on the road?

That'd drive me mad, probably why the previous owners moved.

just go over each day at 6am and lean on the door bell till they open up, say "move the car now" and walk away, do it each and every time they park there, but at weird hours like 11pm at night, 1am even, and if they keep doing it go back over and say ok ive had enough asking permission to get out of my own drive each bloody time i need to so this is the last time it is happening :) and tell them you will now be calling a tow truck each and every time rather than waking them :)

The previous owner didn't have a car so that's probably one of the reasons they are pissed off. The driveway was a free for all and now we have came along with two cars

Just stop using your space and use his drive. And say you assumed you were sharing, as he parks on yours on a daily basis.

Just get a wheel nut key for his car and remove the wheels on your drive. They are on your land so are yours. I'd take the brakes too but I'm very mean.

If you did park on their drive , odds-on bet your car would get damaged accidentally of course.
They've got 5 cars and a drive for 3. They've had the drive at your house as 'overflow' parking all this time.So now they're denied.

What part of this is your problem?

(I had 'words' with my NDN over issues. "What part of this is my problem? Its your problem. Don't try and make it mine" and stormed back to my house as fiercely as I could in bare feet )

Even if I didnt have a car I wouldnt want people parking on my land. Cf

That is the weirdest driveway I’ve ever seen. It looks like a lay by next to your front garden.

If it’s definitely all yours, I’d be inclined to redo the whole thing. Pull the hedge down and move it to your border and put the drive within the border as it would usually be. Or can you not do that because there’s no pavement?

What a weird development.

You haven't mentioned his replies, what does he say when you ask him to move? Does he think it's his space?

Has your DH managed to have a word?

It does appear to be a lay-by next to the hedge and I think alongside the road

Would it work if you got the Council to paint an H on the road? £80 sounds cheap to get it sorted. And then if they park on it that is a traffic violation and can be dealt with accordingly.
If the previous owner gave them permission to use the drive fine, but any normal person would realise you can’t go on doing the same thing if the new owners have cars. Which sadly means they’re not normal, so I certainly wouldn’t be suggesting any of the more radical solutions on here.
In the meantime just keep asking him to move it every single time and hope he gets fed up. And I’m so sorry OP, it’s such a letdown to move into a house full of high hopes for the future and be met with this sort of stuff. Are there any nice neighbours on the street?

MrsFezziwig, it already IS a traffic violation to park across a dropped curb! And once you tell them not to park on your drive, they are trespassing. You shouldn't have to change a thing - they are already in the wrong.

The important thing is not to compound the problem by breaking the law yourself. Make it very clear verbally and in writing what they are doing wrong. Also report them every time they block the dropped curb. I like the idea of ringing their bell every single time they park on your drive or across your drive. That isn't unreasonable, even if in the middle of the night or first thing in the morning. If they block you in, they have to move at YOUR convenience.

Could you fence around the bottom of your drive or store your bins there, so that both your cars can drive in and park side by side but the wedgy triangle bit is blocked?

I'm wondering if the edging of the drive where ndn is parked doesn't infact form a dropped kerb as the blocks are different on the other side. So while you may still be able to drive over it easily the real access is where you park parallel. Do you have plans of the site?

I don't understand why this is still unresolved. Parking across a dropped kerb is illegal, both the council and the police can act against the offender, the vehicle could be towed away, so why isn't the OP using these answers to her problem?

No one should be parking there that isn't you, your DH or your own guest. No one.

They know this, but they don't want to search for a parking space further away from their house. You and your DH need to make it clear that that is not your problem. It's theirs.

Why don’t one of you park on the road in front of your own drive? Will be a bit annoying having to move your own car for your DPs car to get out or vice Verda but gets the message across.

While you’re both out, folding bollards will work

They also used to collect up their dog's sht and dump it in the gardens of neighbours with dogs, then call the council.*

Bloody hell Rebby!

That sort of behaviour is actually unhinged . . .