On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:51:13 GMT, "Alan Holmes"
wrote:


"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
...

In article ,
Sacha writes:
| On 3/4/07 18:19, in article ,
"Rhiannon
| Macfie Miller" wrote:
|
| According to the deeds I have, we have 'sole responsibility' for
| maintaining that particular boundary, which I assume means that it's
| ours. However, whether the new neighbours know this is another
matterŠ
|
| If it's yours, you can do what you like, as long as you don't harm your
| neighbour's property. They might prefer the mess to be out of the way
| *before* they move in! Perhaps you could ask the estate agents either
to
| inform them of what you're planning or for their contact address so
that you
| can tell them yourself.

But that condition is only HALF the story - the hedge must also have
been planted on the owner's property, and not under an arrangement with
the other people. It is common for property A to have sole responsibility
for a boundary, but the actual hedge to have been planted by the owners of
and on property B and the boundary described in the deeds not to exist as
a construction any longer.

So, IF the deeds say that AND it is on your property, any reasonable
person would assume that it is yours, in the absence of other evidence.
And then I would just go ahead. But DO check where it is planted first!

But it would be very easy to make a mistake and assume the trees are on your
land!(:-)

It would also be very easy to mistake the trespasser armed with an axe
to cut down those trees with some nutter who wishes to murder my
family. Both barrels in the face, problem solved (:-)