Parking on disabled boxes

[stanbesida]

Could anybody suggest a way to embarrass my neighbour in the hope that he will stop parking on the disabled box outside my bungalow? The council put a disabled box on the road outside my bungalow a few years ago but the man who owns the shop next door (I purchased the bungalow from his family), told me that I would never get to park on it as I was using his customers' parking spaces up. W€henever I moved my car off the box to go shopping or to the doctor/hospital, he told his staff to let him know and he put his car on the box. He got a MP friend of his to write a letter stating that it was not illegal to park on a disabled box outside somebody's property, or at the top of a driveway, he photocopied this letter and enlarged it and passed copies to all his customers and pasted them all over the door and window of his shop to encourage people to park on it. There has been a lot of problems over the years but I always thought that it was the old man who was causing all the problems until I arrived home from hospital yesterday morning and the son who is a partner in the business had parked his delivery van on the box. I reversed my car up to the front of the van and drove my wife's car behind it so that he would have to shunt to get the van out. He left his van on the box overnight and his son came to collect him, when we got up this morning he had parked his car behind my wife's car. I had to go to the chemist this morning so the ???? parked his car in front of his van while I was away. The old man has just come in his car albeit that he only lives about 700 yards from the shop, and he has now parked that behind my car, (so much for ME using his customers' parking spaces!!!!) I have taken photographs of the vehicles showing them parked on the disabled box but I don't know what to do with them and would welcome any advice as it is not illegal to park outside somebody's property on a disabled box albeit that the law is going to be changed some time

[Moondial]

xobapg great responses. I have memories of these things happening in the 80's until they were called vandalism. I know someone else who is disabled and the space she has outside her place of residence is for her family (as she can't see to drive) & for any medical purposes. It's been very frustrating when I've taken family members to her to help her out & there's been nowhere to park, despite this space. I hope the councils will clamp (literally) down on this soon...