Parking in front of my garage.

If its a drive way you can have them removed by the police for causing an obstruction, don't know about a garage though.

Do you know anyone with jacking wheel dollies? Borrow them and move the carto somewhere very awkward lol.

Do you rent the parking space as well as the garage? Might be worth enquiring on the Speed, Plod and the Law section on Pistonheads - lots of proper legal bods there that might be able to help.

For what it's worth, I used to rent a lock up from the local council, the lock up was one of ten in an "L" shape with my one being right at one end in the middle part of the "L" so my lock up was forever getting blocked in.

For a start, I would just phone the police (101) who would then contact the owner of any car that was blocking me in. Said owners were pretty quick in coming and moving their car. I had no issues apart from with one particular guy but that's a story for another day.

However, some good did come out of this as I struck up a rapport with one of the other blokes who used to park in front of my lock-up's door, he had the next lock up to mine but on the upright part of the "L" if you get my meaning so his car was nose up to his door but parked across my one. I didn't need into the garage very often and his car was off the street for some fettling so he gave me his phone number and I would just give him a bell ahead of when I needed access. He would then meet me and move the car so added security which suited me fine.

Hope this helps

I'd contact the council, before doing anything else.

You might be able to swap for a better located garage.....especially if you give a bit of a sob story, (late for work, demanding boss/wife etc.!), take pictures too.

I thunk what you're dealing with as much as anything is a complete lack of common sense, not just by the owner of the car, but by the window lickers at the council. I have a similar problem, I have a drive by the side of my house that I own, but the council have put permit parking bays along the road, which of course goes across my drive. 9 times out of 10 when I come home I can't park in my drive because some idiot has parked across it, but worse than that, if by some miracle I do get into my drive at night, when I come out in the morning I can't get out because some idiot is blocking me in!! There's nothing I can do about it either, as apparently if they're displaying a valid permit legally they're entitled to park in the parking bay that obstructs my drive! I've been to the council about it all several times, and their advice to me was that I should buy a permit for just £50, and I could then park my car in the bays that obstruct my drive! I've tried to explain to these idiots that I don't need a permit as I have my own drive, but to be honest they're not interested. So I've splashed out on a couple of permits, and I do tend to try and block people in who inconsiderately block my drive these days. Sorry about the rant, but I can't get out this morning!

The sad thing is, there is a no parking sign but as Pistonpopper points out, we're dealing with people with little common sense or respect for others. I think I'll phone the council in the morning and ask their advice and see if they can put up better signage etc ?

A tyre valve remover is your friend. They'll stop parking there after they come back to their car several times and the tyres are flat. Don't remove the valves as that's causing damage/theft. If the valves are slightly loose is enough for the desired affect. Inconvenience is a b1tch and so is inconsideration!

is it a 'proper' driveway with a dropped kerb?

If so the council needs kicking .....

This reminds me of my dad going ballistic at the local police back about 1980, he was a London taxi driver and obviously needed to get the FX4 out of the garage at strange hours, early one evening he came in ranting that someone had parked over the garage ,he duly did the right thing and called the police,they arrived and said that as we lived in a close it was private and they couldn't do anything, my dad was very very irate has he just wanted to go to work,now I'm not condoning what happened next please remember it was over 35 years ago and my dad was quite a hothead back then, he said to the police " so it's private then and you can't do anything then?",, to which the police said they could not, my dad then went into the garage revved the cab up and reversed straight into the side of an Austin 1100!,,, the police should Of done something but didn't!,,, they then went on to help bounce the old 1100 out of the way........nothing ever came out of it and the Austin was gone by the next day,as said I'm not condoning it ,but me and my dad still have a chuckle about that night, I was only about 12 then and its stayed with me ever since........I'm not saying you should do the same btw!