How to stop this guy from parking across our drive

My house is an end terraced, with no pavement outside, just out of the door into the road. When we moved here, a good few years ago, we noticed that folk often parked outside the houses even if they didn`t live there, but one lady put a notice in her front window saying, "please do not park under this window", and amazingly, no one ever did!

Or you could park your own car in front of your drive. Perhaps that would confuse him.

We live in a holiday area and visitors are back now and parking a nightmare. A friend who has a house on the Isle of Wight had to involve the police when her drive was blocked for a week.
So huge sympathy but some people are scarily selfish now

Most of these situations can be sorted out by a friendly conversation. At our previous house we had a shared driveway. We had a double garage with tarmac hardstanding in front while the neighbour's house had a single garage with one space tarmac in front. The remainder of the area was shared and was gravelled. The house deeds stated that parking on the gravel was not allowed. Very early on we agreed that we had no problem with guests parking on the gravel areas as long as no-one was blocked in. They were great neighbours!

Now I live by a primary school and regularly have problems parking at drop off and pick up times. I don't park in my drive as it is very narrow and because of the busyness of the road it is unsafe to reverse out, so have to reverse in - tricky. I prefer to park in the road but if there is no space I park on the white line across my own dropped kerb as I'm only blocking my own access. It does annoy me if others do that as my access is then denied. Most people move without any problems if asked but it is a problem if you don't know who they are or where they have gone. My next door neighbour also parks on the road so I have occasionally blocked his drive as he doesn't use it himself. I've cleared that with him too and would always move my car if he asked me to.

Obviously communicating with neighbours is the key. I know which neighbours usually use the space outside their house so if mine is taken I try to use one that isn't usually used even if I have to walk a bit further though occasionally I'm aware I have taken a neighbour's space. Mostly though we simply show courtesy to each other and do the best we can despite the occasional selfish inconsiderate behaviour of parents dropping their children. I once asked someone to move who was blocking my driveway. He was queuing to buy an ice cream from the van stopped in my usual space. His response - "I won't be long"! Meanwhile I was blocking the road with nowhere to go at all! Unbelievable! Thankfully idiots like that are fairly rare!

We have similar daft parking spaces but are very understanding of neighbours lack of space so agree they can park on our very wide drive sometimes if they have visitors, they never abuse this. BUT some visiting them DO block us in, I wonder why they can't see what they're doing, mustbe thick! We just politely ask them not to block our driveand to park awaym from mouth of drive usually ok if it happens again DH gets sterner and sometimes puts his copper's head on!! But we don't antagonise we all have to live in peace!just ask nicely and make clear you are not going to get upset and ask him to respect your access!

I expect he’s probably moved the car by now, seeing as this thread is 7 months old!

Knock on his door! No need for an argument or anything.

Why oh why do people on Gransnet not read the thread before wasting their time giving advice to the OP who has more than once confirmed that the problem no longer exists.