The message
from "Brian Watson" contains these words:


"seafuryfan" wrote in message
s.com...
Situation: We want to buy a house which we really like. The only
drawback is that there is a 12' high leylandi hedge, located about 12'
widthways from the back of the house. It more or less runs the entire
length and appears to be designed to obviously give privacy to a nearby
bungalow.

That would be a good enough reason for me not to buy the house.

It is a dispute just waiting to happen, and may already be such, so why the
vendor is selling (or trying to sell) the property.

If that's the case, the vendor is obliged to reveal an existing
neighbour-dispute. IMHO taking on an existing dispute simply isn't worth
the trouble and open-ended expense. The OP could find his own mortgage
lenders and insurers also take a very dim view.

If the vendor is not directly involved in any disputes, you should
also consider whether the hedge owner may be screening out nuisance from
someone or something else (dazzling security lights or flying balls from
property on the other side of the vendor's property, for example). The
vendor is not obliged to tell you about other peoples' problems and
disputes.

Janet.