I'm enjoying all the suggestions folks, some of which have already crossed my mind in the early hours.  I forgot to mention that the chap in question is a body builder and quite capable of wringing my scrawny neck should he suspect any foul play.  :S

Check with your Local Authority first and tell them the trouble you keep having and ask if it's okay to use Roadway Paint to clearly mark the boundaries of your driveway (hatching if possible, but this stuff is expensive) and, much as I hate the plethora of signs and notices everywhere nowadays, I would get your local Signmaker to make up a sign for your gates along the lines of "KEEP CLEAR - ACCESS REQUIRED DAY AND NIGHT" (forget the "please", niceties are wasted on idiots!)

Your neighbour sounds a bit of a bully, so maybe a polite approach along the lines of inventing an imaginary hospitalised relative (don't use one of your real relations in case it tempts fate) that means you may need to rush out at a moment's notice, day or night, and that's why the council have made you a sign  and allowed you to mark your driveway boundary.    (White Lies again)

Now tell me your neighbour is a member of Briskoda and has read my suggestion ............................

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blackfriar-Road-Marking-Paint-Yellow/dp/B008QXX7R6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1406578375&sr=8-1&keywords=yellow+road+paint

 

Edited 28 July, 201411 yr by bealine

How can anyone think parking like that is okay?! I just don't get it! How difficult is it to just park somewhere else?

 

Poor parkers really, REALLY irritate me. As others have said, it's usually out of laziness, or just not thinking. I can forgive someone taking up a couple of spaces in a big supermarket car park, sometimes I do it if it's quiet and I really can't be arsed, and I can forgive parking a bit wonky in a tight space, or having a couple of wheels on the pavement on a narrow street - one of the streets where my dad lives, if you want to park within half a mile if your house, you have to park a bit on the pavement. What really gets me is people blocking others in, parking on blind corners/junctions, and people parking OVER the pavement. I nearly knocked a kid and his dog over a few months ago because some silly bint who lives on my street insisted on parking across the pavement all the time, forcing people to walk on the road on a corner. Though I left a polite notice under her windscreen wiper and her parking has improved a little - people can at least get past now.

 

It just frustrates me that people park in such dangerous places, they risk causing accidents, just to be 50 feet closer to the shop/house/whatever. It's bloody lazy. I'm very careful that I always park considerately, even if it means walking a little further.

Do you not find it strange that women pay less to insure their cars? I wonder why this would be? Oh yeah, because women are less of a risk and have fewer accidents.

they have more accidents but the costs of those are less. IE lots of little car park bumps

I love seeing the bad parking Facebook pages.

It's amazing how some have licences

It's funny until I get stuck in a bus somewhere because of it

Here you go.   This is as things stand right now,

 

 

I politely asked how long they'd be parked there and the response was 'Why, do you need to go out?  Just ask us when you need to.' 

 

I pointed out that I need to go out a few times over the course of the evening & they got all huffy with me saying that it wouldn't be there long.  I refrained from saying that it was last night as they then act all offended as if we're in the wrong.  How can you deal with people like this?

 

edit: There are spaces available on the street in either direction too.  The Ignis might just - just be able to go straight out & not turn but the Vectra has no chance.

We used to have neighbours who would park like that, we were also only 4 houses away from a Chinese takeaway & a some shops so used to get blocked in alot with their customers.

 

We had a 1 1/2 width drop kerb but two spaces side by side in our front garden, unless the kerb was fully empty I couldn't swing my car around enough to get on the drive, when the drive was blocked I used to use my towbar to move their car accross their drive as I got fed up of asking them not to block our drive, when their son passed his driving test he would then park at the other side, partially blocking the left side of our drop kerb.

 

Due to the lack of vision coming off our drive as it was on a slight bend, my wife didn't see the mr2 coming around the bend from the left (due to the solid blacked out windows of next doors sons car) and the mr2 drove into the front left side of her car which in turn pushed her car into next doors car to her right.  It was from this point on they realised the danger and never parked there again and used their own drive and blocked themselves in, sadly the spaces were still used for the takeaway & shops

I also think there are some people who are that blinkered they don't know they're doing it

On the next street to us is a hill and many times a week a woman in a Seat Ibiza parks straight on the brow of the hill - fully on road as well,despite there being a lengthy empty driveway

This is a Macmillan nurse for a cancer sufferer at that address who really oughta know better

Swmbo came back in distress the other day after a near miss even though she had right of way!

I haven't figured out if they are doing it because a) they aren't aware  are aware but don't care  c) are doing it because they are intentionally trying to upset us.  I admit that there's an intelligence/awareness issue here and that we aren't dealing with nuclear physicists but as dazz600 says, they should know better.

The best I saw was a range rover had parked on the top of the grass verge at Richard Dunns sport center as he couldn't be bothered to climb 30 steps ! .er your going to exercise ! Anyway came out to find someone had rolled it down the bank and probably written off. I heard him complaining to reception and they replied did you park it in our 250 spaces car park . Sorry our cameras covers the car park and entrance not the hilly grass bank , you will have to claim on your insurance but they probably wont cover you

Had a couple of days in a hotel for a pals wedding last weekend. The main car park was full so went in to the 2nd car park. All bays marked out etc and probably room for 100 plus cars. There was a row of about 20 cars, not ONE single one was parked within the bay. Some sap had parked like a pillock in the 1st bay and like fecking sheep everyone followed -some parking the dead centre of their car slap bang on the divider line FFS. All high marques, money really can't buy sense!

Also 'suffered' from our neighbour opposite parking right across the roaf from our drive. Asked on many occassions to move but to no avail, he was sorry he didn't when a pals LWB Transit stuffed right in to the side as he couldn't swing round my wall to get out, he was even told there'd be a delivery that day and the drive would be needed, thus the space round it.

Road not roaf

Here you go. This is as things stand right now,

I politely asked how long they'd be parked there and the response was 'Why, do you need to go out? Just ask us when you need to.'

I pointed out that I need to go out a few times over the course of the evening & they got all huffy with me saying that it wouldn't be there long. I refrained from saying that it was last night as they then act all offended as if we're in the wrong. How can you deal with people like this?

edit: There are spaces available on the street in either direction too. The Ignis might just - just be able to go straight out & not turn but the Vectra has no chance.

I get this all the time from neighbors 2 houses down. They seem to think it's acceptable to over hang my drive.. came to a head yesterday,as the neighbour opposite is in his 70s and currently receiving treatment for prostrate cancer. No matter what he did, he couldn't get his car out of his garage due to the length of the his car and width of the road. He knocked on their door, ask them politely to move it. The wife told him she isn't moving it and then when he went back to his car, her husband came out and started to threaten him. At this point I phoned another neighbour and we went to his aid..typical bully boy, all mouth and he backed off when he seen us coming over..came home today to find the drive blocked and unable to get the van on the drive. Asked them to move and refrain from parking and him and son starts mouthing off, threatening to vandalised the car and van. Son saying you don't know what I do, just started laughing at the fetus. I be more intimidated by the likes of 1direction than this little to55 pot

A body builder driving a VW Beetle?

Much coming and going, short visits, bodybuilder...

 

Steroid dealer anyone??

I get this/ have had it for a number of years with blonde across the road. Road is narrow, but if all park with consideration it's possible( and access is possible for emergency services). I've got a drive, but every so often I get cars parked across mine, ( visiting blonde), who often parked a bit from the pavement. So Occasionally I get bolshie and when her car is missing, I park totally on the road, meaning she has to park well over the pavement or elsewhere. One day recently she decided to make a point by parking just on the pavement, after I'd been home for some time. School bus arrived with no room. . Of course ,mine was in the wrong as it was "her parking space". Getting a bit fed up ,when the kids descended on my front door I ignored them, and in end blond had to move hers. It's never happened again .

It seems I'm not the only one then. 

 

The Beetle is his wife's car and he has an A3 diesel, both of which are automatics. 

 

The thing is though, I don't want to fall out with people as we have to live next door to each other and I'm more into karma & harmony than fighting and grudge matches.  It would be so easy to start a turf war with them but in the end it wouldn't be worth it as I'm not dealing with people who possess the same logic and values as me.  Maybe I'm expecting too much of people to be thoughtful and considerate but I'm hoping that one day they'll come round and start thinking of others.

 

Maybe.

It seems I'm not the only one then.

The Beetle is his wife's car and he has an A3 diesel, both of which are automatics.

The thing is though, I don't want to fall out with people as we have to live next door to each other and I'm more into karma & harmony than fighting and grudge matches. It would be so easy to start a turf war with them but in the end it wouldn't be worth it as I'm not dealing with people who possess the same logic and values as me. Maybe I'm expecting too much of people to be thoughtful and considerate but I'm hoping that one day they'll come round and start thinking of others.

Maybe.

Right park the Vectra first in the drive then wake them up at 1am and act as if you need to get out in an emergency then they might stop!