michael adams wrote:
"Sacha" wrote in message
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I agree 100% and I'd consider putting some trellis on top of that, well
secured against windy conditions and nosy neighbours. CAN he just cut
down the your half of the hedge?


IIRR in one of the "Leylandii Wars", the neighbour who chopped down
the hedge claimed he only ever owned the bottom half of the hedge.
So he started at the bottom and only cut to half way up, never thus
touching the top half owned by the neighbour.

Or maybe its an urban myth, or maybe I just deamed it up. Dunno.

In my last house I had a 12' tall leylandii hedge which I simply
loathed, so I arranged to have it cut down. A serously dotty woman
living across the lane reported me to the council for 'mutilating
beautiful old trees'. The council man told me later that he laughed so
hard he was nearly sick. I left one standing which neatly obscured her
view of my garden from her windows! But this woman was so peculiar
that she wrapped rolled up newspapers in kitchen towel and stuffed them
down the manhole cover of the cess pit used by her house and the
adjacent one. Her nieghbours had to pay for it to be emptied, not her,
for some technical reason. After that episode, several neighbours
she'd upset, or whose lives she'd made difficult, banded together and
took out an injunction preventing her from any such further
shenanigans.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon