"Kay Easton" wrote in message
Look at the numbers, David and tell me of ONE other single hedging plant
being considered for legislative action because of its antisocial use.
Just
one.

Laurel.

The draft legislation refers to any evergreen, not just to leylandii


The legislation has to be drafted that way as, if it is specific wrt the
botanical name of (say) Leylandii or to its common name, it is open to
argument whether a particular hedge is of that type thus rendering the law
useless against the very people it is intended to control, as they would use
the system to delay and obfusticate.

"Evergreen hedge" is clear and unambiguous, and if it catches the very rare
instance of an antisocial Evergreen other than Leyandii then all well and
good.

pk