Sick of my drive being blocked every single day

[ForeverLooking]

This isn't the worst problem in the world, but it's really starting to piss me off.
Every single day without fail, my drive gets blocked by someone or multiple someones...workman, delivery drivers, people "quickly" visiting other houses, people pulling over to have a snack/talk on the phone. Obviously this doesn't inconvenience me all the time as I'm WFH, but very often I'll have to go out and ask the driver to move so I can get out, or so the taxi bringing my DS (who has SEN and needs to be dropped off at my door) can get in. People do, but it's often accompanied by eye rolls, huffing and puffing or "I will in a minute" or "I won't be long". My house is a cottage on the main road of a village, so I think its just a the most convenient place for people to pull over and access what they need. Yes I've got a full dropped kerb and there is parking a few yards up the road and plenty around the village. I know realistically there's not a huge amount I can do about it aside from seething quietly behind the curtains and going out to ask people to move -do you think people would respond to a sign by the drive asking for it not to be blocked? I have a feeling the "I'll only be a minute" crowd won't give a shit. Has anyone put a sign up and the situation got better?

Put cones up. Ask the council to paint white lines. Put up a sign.

Can you ask the council to mark out a disabled bay outside your drive. I know other people can park in one but I doubt that many will have blue badges. Failing that get some traffic cones and pop them out every single day

Polite note on the windshield with copydex. It comes off easily with no damage but is just messy enough to make wiping it off an arseache.

I used to have that problem a lot. One solution is to park across your own drive. I know you shouldn't have to but it's less stressful!

Do you know what's frustrating? It's the fact that there is a visible lay-by just down the road from my house -never full, always empty spaces. I have no idea (beyond delivery drivers dropping off the the houses next door) why nobody uses it. You can see it from my driveway It's that close. Bizarre.

Thanks everyone for the ideas!

Happens to my neighbour all the time myself and other neighbours always put in our delivery notes NOT to block her driveway they do it anyway there is place to park closer to our houses but they do it to wind her up I swear because she will come out all guns blazing

@ForeverLooking

Do you know what's frustrating? It's the fact that there is a visible lay-by just down the road from my house -never full, always empty spaces. I have no idea (beyond delivery drivers dropping off the the houses next door) why nobody uses it. You can see it from my driveway It's that close. Bizarre.

Excellent diagram 😆

Carry a can of red spray paint when you ask them to move.

If it's happening regularly definitely put up a sign - it will at least make people think even if they are still inconsiderate bastards! I would never park across someones drive unless visiting them and given permission.

Is it possible to apply to the council for it to be made a disabled space? As it is important for your son’s access to your home.

Ask council for an H bar.

Some people are just rude, entitled and lazy and in my experience this is largely a male driver issue. We get vans blocking our drive quite frequently when there is a parking space right next to it, or vans that sit in the middle of the road instead of pulling to the side, and block traffic - it's a quite street but one way and people still need to get out.

I got a ton of verbal abuse as I sat behind one guy in a truck for a minute then beeped (there was room for him to pull and park properly but not for me to get round) as I had a dentist appointment to get to. Not only entitled, lazy and rude but fucking angry and aggressive as well. Shouldn't be on the road- they drive angry as well.

quiet not quite

Might be worth paying for an 'official-looking sign:
www.seton.co.uk/safety-signs/access-awareness-signs/keep-clear-signs

Oh I've found my people on this thread after having trouble with a twat parker today. I scrawled YOU PARK LIKE A TWAT on a (clean) nappy and put it under the offending car's window wiper. If I'd had paper to hand that would have been better. They sneaked off but hopefully the message hit home.

Yes, a "keep clear, driveway in constant use" might deter some.

Why not put out fairly heavy cones every morning to stop people parking there?

Maddening. People tend to be pretty good around here, but there is a car that several times a week parks about a metre onto our white line. They don’t actually overhang the drive, but the angles mean it’s a nightmare getting out and sometimes I can’t drive off in the direction I want to. This is why the white line is where it is. Pisses me off every time I see it.

How maddening.
If your child is in receipt of the high-rate mobility component of DLA (and maybe even the low rate) could it be worth seeing if that qualifies him for a marked disabled bay (created by the LA) outside your home? I used to know the rules about this but am prob out of date.
Another possible doopid suggestion is that on a sign from you (I would deffo do this) could you say where there IS parking (in that layby)? No excuse for them then, is there?

H bar by the council plus you have a good case with the taxi driver needing to drop your child off as close a possible to your house.

I know you shouldn't have to, but could you park over your own drive at "key offending" times?

@Chloemol

Speak to your local authority and see if they will put a H bar in front of your drive so the idiots that can’t see it’s a drive have a visual notice

Was also going to suggest this. Also known as a protective entrance marking

Id put up a sign. "Please Keep Clear. Access needed at all times"

Yes, put a sign up stating that access for a disabled resident is needed at all times. It probably won't stop everything but it may make at least some of them think for a bit. It takes a special type of shittiness to roll your eyes at being asked to move in those circumstances.