What can I do if my Neighbour cuts down my hedge?
What can I do if my Neighbour cuts down my hedge?
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If a neighbour’s tree or hedge is growing over into your garden, you cannot make them cut it back. However, you do have the right to remove overgrowing branches yourself, but only back to the common boundary. Any cuttings must be offered back to the tree or hedge owner.
Can I cut my next door Neighbour’s hedge?
You are allowed, by law, to prune the roots or branches of a hedge if it’s a nuisance and protruding into your garden. And therefore your neighbour can do the same if it’s your hedge. If the height is the problem do not attempt to trim it without advice from a property solicitor.
What is the legal height of a Leylandii hedge?
2m
How Tall can my Leylandii Tree be? Leylandii trees should be grown no taller than 2m in height. That being said, if a hedge is below that height and still being a nuisance to neighbours, they are within their rights to report to the council who will ultimately decide the acceptable height.
How can I kill my neighbors tree without him knowing?
To do this undetected you would need to hammer the nails into the roots, remove a piece of bark and hammer nails and glue the bark back to the tree or build a tree fort or attach a sign to the tree using copper nails instead of steel.
Why did the next door neighbor cut down my hedge?
They said they wanted to take down my hedge at the rear by ‘a foot or so’. Their aim is to let more light into the garden. The hedge is a border hedge between the two houses at the rear but it is completely on my side (ie not a boundary hedge) and due to neglect probably overhangs their garden.
Who are the neighbours of the company next door?
Richard Abraham, who claims the trees tower over his property and keep his garden in darkness, has taken his dispute to the Scottish Government. He has teamed up with fellow neighbours Jennifer Ayres, Dr Lucy Macnay and Aqeel Ajazi who all insist leylandii belonging to company director Robert Shand, 77, makes their lives a misery.
How tall is the hedge next door to my house?
A neighbour has demanded a company director next door to cut down his 40ft leylandii hedge that he says has forced him to move his satellite TV dish twice. Richard Abraham, who claims the trees tower over his property and keep his garden in darkness, has taken his dispute to the Scottish Government.
Advice from chartered surveyor John Conlin helps a reader whose neighbour wants to take out a shared hedge. can my neighbour remove the hedge? Is our neighbour entitled to take out our shared hedge?
They said they wanted to take down my hedge at the rear by ‘a foot or so’. Their aim is to let more light into the garden. The hedge is a border hedge between the two houses at the rear but it is completely on my side (ie not a boundary hedge) and due to neglect probably overhangs their garden.
Richard Abraham, who claims the trees tower over his property and keep his garden in darkness, has taken his dispute to the Scottish Government. He has teamed up with fellow neighbours Jennifer Ayres, Dr Lucy Macnay and Aqeel Ajazi who all insist leylandii belonging to company director Robert Shand, 77, makes their lives a misery.
Advice from chartered surveyor John Conlin helps a reader whose neighbour wants to take out a shared hedge. can my neighbour remove the hedge? Is our neighbour entitled to take out our shared hedge?
A neighbour has demanded a company director next door to cut down his 40ft leylandii hedge that he says has forced him to move his satellite TV dish twice. Richard Abraham, who claims the trees tower over his property and keep his garden in darkness, has taken his dispute to the Scottish Government.