How does your friend manage elsewhere
Sometimes it's easy, other times it's not. I can't help thinking we are drifting off topic. But if you really want to understand, then just look at your usual wlking routes and imagine how you would negotiate it in a a wheelchair,first conventional, then think about electric.
There's a couple of houses on my street that put out their own cones on a public road to park their cars, as if they own the place! For a bit I thought it was for disabled parking or something and that the council hadn't got round to painting it.
Turns out one of the cone people is old and infirm and can barely walk, and came round to ask if ok not to park there , etc No probs. but the others are young and able and just being selfish, sticking them out when they go to work! So I just move their cones and stick my car there. They've never, ever said anything.
have you ever thought about cones Charlie? 
But if you really want to understand,
Yeah I understand - my mother is confined to a wheelchair. OK if you don't want to 'drift off topic' I still think a polite note is more desirable and possibly less confrontational than face to face. Just my opinion mind.
trolltastic.
Good luck. People get VERY odd when it comes to parking / driving.
Just up the road from my daughters nursery there's a couple (mid-forties, perfectly mobile - both active tennis players etc) who insist on putting out police (!) cones when they leave for work in the misunderstanding that they have some right of ownership over 10 foot odd of the high street. The cones make a funny noise when you run over them. Not really sure why they continue to do it - some of the parents seem to make a game of how many of the cones you can actually park on top of...
I'm not sure if DVLA will provide address details. I worked for Autotrader for a while, they use a webservice that would return V5 details, including address, to build their advert details but it's not publicly available anymore AFAIK.
As others have said, a polite note will usually suffice. If the car owner's not an idiot you'll get a reasonable response; if they are an idiot then it matters not how you approach the topic. I find there are fewer idiots than we think there are or that the tabloid press would have you think there are. The majority of people are OK.
I find there are fewer idiots than we think there are or thatthe tabloid pressSTW would have you think there are.
Nah, only messing. Lots of useful suggestions. I reckon keeping an eye out is probably the best though.
The thought that even if you did talk to him and he was understanding and amenable and agreed not to park there, that someone else would just take his place.
This is one of those battles that you should simply choose not to fight because you're never going to win.
All that will happen is that you will obsess about the injustice of it. It will eat you from the inside like a cancer until you're hollow and empty. Then you'll start to read either the Daily Star or the Daily Mail (depending on which dark path you end up on) and the next thing you know you've changed you log in name on here to Elfin or Talkemada or something 
Feel free to collect the cones and return them to you local police station with an explanation of where they were and how they're being used. As for other issues, knowing some details would make a difference. It's always easier to start a conversation when you know what's next if it doesn't work. If the driver in the op is causing an actual obstruction, then the police may need to have a work. If he's over a dropped kerb other than his own, some authorities have adopted powers to deal with this. Some may also mark discretionary disabled bays on the highway. However, these often get ignored because of people attitudes to parking and often cause more trouble than they're worth. However, if you're confident it can be silver ammeciably, let a note saying something like "wonder if I could ask a little favour" with either your address or phone number.
Good luck with it either way. I spend most days listening.g to someone throw their toys out of the pram arguing rights the won't believe they don't actually have.
......this particular spot is the only bit of the pavement low enough for his chair to get up.
Is he blocking a dropped kerb? If he is then he is not allowed to park there.
but as many of us are well aware, the written word can fail to convey some of the subtleties of conversation
Priceless.
Still IMO, if someone stalked me down then came to my door to have this conversation I would be far less amenable than if they left a polite note. Include your address if you want to.
Better still... start at thread on here detailing what your note is going to say, we can help you ensure it is polite.
'Oi fart face, move your car, what have you got sugar for brains or summink?'
Oddly where i ussed to leave a couple moved in and started putting cones outside their house, despite the fact they had a driveway (a rare luxury in that street) they could use.
I simply parked next to the coned off space one night, opened my boot placed cones in back of car and gave them their fredom at a local building site. 
I consider it a public service.
How about putting the URL for this thread on a note then tying it round a brick?
When I was a student a couple of houses in a very congested street used to do the cone thing.
I think they must have been the only people in the whole world who weren't aware of students' obsessions with cones. Leaving them outside our house was just too easy 
No idea where they got them from, but we had quite a collection in the garden by the end of the year...
How about putting the URL for this thread on a note then tying it round a brick?
To clarify, the conversation should go like this.
Me: Hi, My name is CharlieMungus and I live over there, I wonder if i could ask a favour, see when you park your car there, could i just ask that, if possible you could just roll it back by about a meter. I have a Dalek friend who visits occasionally, and if he can get up there where the kerb is a bit lower. It makes it a lot easier for him.
Him: Oh, I'm sorry...
Me:No really, it's not a problem that you park there, in fact if you continued to park there it would be great, then I wouldn't have to go round everyone's house asking them to roll back a bit. Thanks ever so much. Goodbye.
So, if someone tall dark and good looking turns up on your door in the next few days and says those words, then you'll know we've all been talking about you.
Apart from that, i assume no one knows of a simple way of finding out, online, where they live?
Nope, otherwise you'd have every angry nutter putting car registrations into the locator and petrol bombing someones house because they didn't indicate soon enough before they turned left.
A neighbour of mine had a similar issue and ORDERED my tenant to move my car, which was parked outside his house (tenant was a mate & mechanic and fixing the car at the time). Tenant/mate refused due to his tone, a couple of arguments ensued and the neighbour kicked my car door in.
Idiot hadn't noticed the witnesses who left notes with me. Guess who got a Police complaint, £400 body-shop bill and £60 Court summons fee to pay?
put a travel rug on his roof, set up a picnic up there for when he returns, put gin in the tea, wave to him as he drives off post tiffin and you call the police?
Charlie - you sound far more cordial in real life! 
Charlie - you sound far more cordial in real life!
I can be if I concentrate.
beautiful pun sir! you have gone up in my esteem
Lived in a flat in the town called chester, plenty of parking on the terraced street i lived in, old grumpy neighbour next door, hammering on the front door at 05.30 hrs one morning shouting i needed to move my car, went out and looked down street one car parked outside, loked for ambulance, fire engine, Argos delivery driver with sleep disorder, none around, so asked nice ranting old biddy what the problem was, she said her daughter was arriving at 09.00hrs to take her shopping and she wanted to park ther, in the spot the car was parked in.
I politely pointed out it wasnt my car and i didnt drive, her responce was do you think you push it away then.
Perfect case for euthanasia there, project
the town called chester
it's a City darling, not a town, hence the bloomin great big cathedral in the middle of it
I thought it was a rap at first. In fact, with only minor changes...
Lived in a flat in the town called chester,
plenty of parking on the terraced street right there
old grumpy neighbour come from next door,
at 5:30 hours hammering on mah front door
she be shouting i need to move my car
okay, maybe it was just that first bit then... dammit.
Depends what reasonable is....
Leave a note on his bonnet with a brick paperweight. Include your address for feedback
What if he's built like brick shithouse? ie, where does a gorilla park his car? Ans= anywhere it likes 
So did you ever find out where he lives, or have a pleasant and cordial chat?
Similar to Project, I was told - via a note left on my car's windscreenm not to leave my car parked up the road from where I lived, "OR ELSE"! Even though there were usually plenty of other parking spaces.
GF then overheard the old biddies whinging I'd left the car there when I had to go away for work the previous week. Even though it was infront of someone's house who didn't drive anyway!
When I moved the car, the neighbour I assumed had left the note was looking through his curtain, I politely waved at him...
It unreal how upset ppl get over 'there' space, our old neighbours (either side) would park religously directly in front of their houses. It didn't matter that if they shifted 2 feet forward or backwards would allow some-one else a parking space. Didn't cause us to fall out but you left wondering about their mental state.
We moved on, but now our 'new' elderly neighbours have got a petition together for extra parking spaces (from the houseing association), when @ the street busiest, they might be 5 car parked on one side of the road over a 75m stretch (on a saturday night when there all tucked up in bed)... scary but harmless.
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