Can bailiffs block your driveway with his van?


No

But the bailiff will block your driveway to cause annoyance and stop you driving your car away.

If the bailiff is keeping a person a prisoner by preventing the debtor leaving in their vehicle by blocking the entrance, and may call the police.

The police will look up the mobile number of the registered keeper of the vehicle obstructing the driveway and call them and ask to move the car. This is the number the keeper completed on the V5 green new keeper slip before sending it to the DVLA to register as a new keeper.

If the number goes unanswered, the police will send a car and make enquiries about the driver, and if that is unsuccessful, they sometimes try moving the vehicle by rocking it from side to side on its suspension to bounce it away from the driveway entrance.

Some police forces have a policy to call a vehicle removal service and take away the vehicle.

It is tactically risky for bailiffs to obstruct a driveway using his van, because it exposes them to the debtor calling a friend to come round and let down the tyres of the van and quietly leave, and the debtor then points the vans tyres out to the bailiff which gets the bailiff out of the house.