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

Oh dear, yanbu if you're being blocked in but I'm in the category about the exact set up of your drive. Your photos all just like Ransome cars parked next to each other. If OP can't do a decent diagram, can someone else who understands it try?

Random cars

I also find the photos confusing, and feel a labelled diagram would make things clearer.

To the pp who has offered to do their own diagram: I wish you would! I have even looked on Google Earth using the co-ordinates and cannot for the life of me work out which parking area beings to which house, etc. I think things are not helped by the OP referring to it as her drive. It appears to be a parking area alongside the garden hedge which encloses the whole front garden area rather than a drive in the traditional sense. Or is yours the house to the left of the one with the hedge OP? Anyway, it's a non-standard set up. But you have to go round every single time they park on your property or blocking your access.

I don't know why people are so confused it's quite easy to see what the parking set up is from the several pictures the OP has posted.

If it was that bloody clear there would be no confusion!

I don’t understand it, sorry!

What I've gleaned so far is that the drive is an odd shape directly onto the road.
(Poss looks more like a communal parking place than a drive)
Op can get out if her OH moves his car.
There's a hedge.

Nope - sorry, can’t make head nor tail of the pictures. A diagram would be easier.

The diagram needs to show the OP's house in relation to their parking area/drive and the next door houses and their parking areas.

Reason I say that is that I think the OP and her DH have to park in a certain way so as not to block their NDN's access to their parking area.

I would rearrange things if at all possible, and install a fence with a gate or bollards. Make it 100% clear it is your property. As it stands, it does look a bit like a random bit of road or pavement that anyone can park on.

FGS you're not all bleedin' Judge Judy the OP isn't looking for a legal ruling!. I assume the OP is intelligent enough to know whether the drive belongs to her and if indeed someone is partially blocking it or parking on it. Who care where her house is in relation to it?! Op just want advice on how to handle the neighbour.

It isn't clear to me either. The pictures don't show a pavement or a kerb so I don't understand the reference to a dropped kerb. The drive appears to be triangular / semi circular (and block paved), all on the same level as the adjacent tarmac. I'm not sure if this tarmac is road or not? It sounds as if the OP and DP can drive onto their drive at any point because there isn't a kerb.

If I've got that right, it means that there is much more flexibility about how this driveway can used than is typical. But I can't really picture it as we don't have a birds eye view of the whole area. I get that there is a hedge at one side, but don't understand what is at the other side or where their drive is in relation to CF neighbour.

That doesn't mean neighbour is right - just that I can't understand the set up enough to suggest a solution. I also agree that a conversation is the first step.

Does look more like a parking lay by than a drive

I said upthread already. Get the deeds of your property so it is clear that it is your land. They are treating it as common ground. Perhaps they think it as it does look weird to a lot of us. Perhaps they have entitlement issues because they’ve used it for so long.

I think I found the map also so have put together the attached diagram (!). OP - I'm sure you'll tell me if I've got something wrong. The cars are as per op's photo with her green car against the hedge.

It is an unusual parking layout. Unfortunately there are no yellow lines where the ndn is parking, so I'm not sure if he's technically parking illegally.

OP - if that's your garden by the hedge, would you consider turning that in to an expanded driveway? (Apologies if it's not your garden - it just seemed a logical assumption)

Unimaginative I think you need to change your username.

OP, if that is indeed the layout, if I were you I'd be changing the garden hedge in order to create a more deliniated space, or adding bollards etc. It does seem very confusing, and it's entirely possible that your neighbours don't fully understand the situation either.

I'm sorry this is happening OP - we have issues with someone blocking in our side garage so I feel for you.
However the photos are the most confusing thing to understand. We need an birds eye view drawing of your house, the drive, his house, pavement and road. Now there's a love, go and grab the ruler and coloured pens.

Ooh, interesting!

Did OP say that she had checked the deeds & it was def their space to park on?

OP, it's simple. He's parked across a dropped kerb, which is a fineable offence. Phone the council next time his car is there - they should send out a parking attendant to give him a fine. Do this every. single. time. He'll soon stop.

I did this at a house we rented with a dropped kerb in front of a garage. We used to park one car in the garage and parked our second car across the dropped kerb, which meant more spaces on the road for everyone else. Only problem was, people used to constantly park across the dropped kerb as they assumed the garage wasn't in use (despite a large sign on the door saying it was). One day I'd had enough, and called the council which promptly ticketed the car that had been parked there all day. Only for me to then find out that that was a colleague of DP's. They were travelling together to a client meeting and unbeknownst to me, DP had told him that it would be fine to park there - oops

"He's parked across a dropped kerb, "

He isn't though.

It's also hard to tell if Op also has access from the left.

HurricaneOphelia - we've told OP that already, I even quoted the paragraphs which the council and the police can use, the solution is as you say, but for some reason which I cannot work out the OP won't respond to any of that or do it.