neighbours!

Hoenir

Move the pots onto his drive every time you leave the house. Explain that this is to avoid future confrontatation and damage. 

knightstyle

Thanks all, having slept on it I think I am going to get some glue and stick the pot back together.  It is obvious that my DW knocked into it when she reversed out yesterday.

Mr.Generous

TELLIT01 said:

The neighbour shouldn't be doing anything to obstruct the shared section of the drive.  However, if the pots are entirely on their solely owned part of the drive, and the OP has being going on there because it makes access easier it's a different matter.  There is a house not far from us where the drives run alongside each other but aren't shared.  Quite recently a row of pots appeared along the edge of one drive along the dividing line.  My suspicion is that this was done to stop the neighbour encroaching on their drive.

The house with the line of pots sounds exactly like one in our close. They also park right at the road end of their drive to stop anyone else encroaching on their land - which is highly unlikely!!

MikeJXE

I don't think a shared drive has a dividing line, it's all yours and all your neighbours to share and not obstruct 

elsien

knightstyle said:

Thanks all, having slept on it I think I am going to get some glue and stick the pot back together.  It is obvious that my DW knocked into it when she reversed out yesterday.

I wouldn’t be happy with that if the first time it gets really cold, it breaks again where you’ve glued it. If your wife has definitely broken it, they merit more than a bit of glue. 

Have you worked out yet if the pots are allowed to be where they are?

ThisIsWeird

knightstyle said:

Thanks all, having slept on it I think I am going to get some glue and stick the pot back together.  It is obvious that my DW knocked into it when she reversed out yesterday.

Hmmmm.

Do you have LP on either your home or car insurance? If so, call them up for advice.

Have all the facts ready, succinct and accurate;

1) What do your deeds say - exactly - about the driveway? What does your neighb's deeds say about ditto?

2) Can you define - accurately - where your private driveway, to which this neigh presumably has a RoW access, becomes solely the neighb's? (Or whatever the layout actually is).

3) Can you describe this activity, ideally backing it up with chronological evidence, such as photos or your own CCTV? "He has pots on there and keeps moving them out a bit at a time to make it awkward to exit our drive." Do you have photos? If not, start.

4) And ask what are the laws about CCTV cameras covering part of your property.

Gluing this pot back together is unlikely to satisfy them, but they'll sure enjoy your attempt... It'll also likely imply your responsibility, so expect them to smirk at your attempt, and then tell you to fffffffollow the drive to the nearest pot shop. In any case, you cannot touch their property, so how will you get the pieces?

I wouldn't. At least not without asking - offering - and them agreeing it's fine (in a recordable way...)

twopenny

I'm a great fan of pots and have never paid over £80 for the ones with trees in and they're classy!

Gluing won't work. Compost is wet and expands, contracts.

Buy a new pot the same size, even a small bag of compost that you hold onto while you have the conversation about keeping the pots out of the way or you won't be replacing again.

TELLIT01

In the absence of clarification from the OP regarding the precise location of the pot, I assume that the OP accepts that they were somewhere that his wife should not have driven.

LightFlare

Does it matter (for purposes of replacement) if they should or should not have been there - wife hit a stationary object. (I assume the pot wasn’t moving)

ThisIsWeird

It's a grey area, and will likely come down to what the deeds say, how accurately one can determine the presumed 'line', and the purpose of these pots.
And to some degree whether the OP did something to antagonise their neighb
But, if the story is taken at face value, this neighb is an'ole, and you therefore need to determine the 'legalities', and not concede anything until you know you should.
We all have responsibilities to help avoid accidents and incidents. If the driveway is poorly designed so that it's tricky for the OP to exit without encroaching by a few inches on to the neighb's drive, and there is actually no loss to the neighb by them doing this, and the neighb knew all this but still but obstacles in the way that could cause damage, then there could well be a liability on that neighb.
There are actual cases. Folks placing rocks along grass verges, and cars hitting them trying to make room for oncoming lorries and stuff; the rock-placer would have known the consequences of their actions. 
But it might come down to whether the verge was 'highway' owned, I'm not sure. It isn't always as simple as, "I'm putting this obstacle here, you know it's there, so it's your fault if you hit it..."
Knight style, is there a bigger issue here?