converting garden into drive

[marymoocow]

Have managed to prove that our neighbours are illegally parking on the front garden and have had a letter sent to them from the highways agency stating this. However, they are still parking there, and the highways agency are now saying that it is difficult to enforce. What is our next move? Normally I don't worry about this sort of thing, but it is parked right up to our boundary, so needing to open the door onto our property. Also if we decided to move, it looks unsightly. AND most importantly they shouldn't be doing it.

Any advice please?
Am going to fetch dc, so will be back in a bit. Thanks

A series of different height posts with climbers planted up (maybe alternating 4ft and 6ft). Still open plan, cheap, attractive could assist the house sale and make it difficult to step into your garden.

Wow thanks for all the advise. I think it will have to be plants of some sort, as you say it was in the deeds before we bought that we had to keep all front gardens "open".
LittleBoSheep - we have looked at the website, and have a letter back confirming that they are in the wrong, but still they park there and the council say its difficult to enforce. Think I will just have to be a pain, and keep complaining though. Maybe they will get fed up of me one day.
Thanks for the link NotActuallyAMum, will look into the fencing.

I dont get how its difficult to enforce - what they mean is its not economically of benefit to them to bother to enforce.

The fencing/plants may work and are certainly worth a try but if they are really unreasonable people they will just damage them.

Persistent but polite pester power to the council may help, see if you can get a member of the local council on your side.

Hmm our local councillor is chairman of governors at my school. Maybe i'll have a word with him.

i would do the string fencing AND a border of plants.

Our gardens are supposed to be open plan but once an estate gets to a certain age they don't bother about it.

We had to put up a small picket fence to stop our neighbours "claiming" part of our drive.

marymoocow- I know this isint very nice, but would you consider annonymously letting traffic wardens know everytime/day/night (think you can get number on line through your borough), and maybe if they got a ticket every day/time they would stop???
Sorry to suggest such a cruel thing- but it might work?!

Think we've only got two traffic wardens in the whole town though, and not sure they would come out to our estate which is on the outskirts. Good thought though.
At the moment they have put a skip on this piece of land and look like they're having a good clear out. Maybe they're moving - or am i clutching at straws?