Down the road from us there has been a lovely cypress hedge for the last
twenty years. I saw it planted and have admired it ever since. The owner
has tended it lovingly, never letting it get out of control. I suppose
it must be about six foot high and it has always looked very neat and
beautiful. I wish my privet hedge looked half as nice.

This week he has started cutting it back nearly to the trunk. This
morning I was walking past and he was there. "What a shame," I said.
"Were you told to cut it back by the Council?" "Yes," he said.

Apparently the reason he has been told to cut it back is that it
overhangs the pavement. Not by very much and it doesn't incommode
pedestrians. I know because I walk past it several times a week.

So why am I cross? Because all the way down the road there are cars
parked *on* the pavement making it a real obstacle course for the
pedestrian. Does the Council try to do anything about them? No! They
just have a go at someone who has provided something that looks
beautiful and doesn't incommode the pedestrian.

Bah!
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"David Rance" wrote in message
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Down the road from us there has been a lovely cypress hedge for the last
twenty years. I saw it planted and have admired it ever since. The owner
has tended it lovingly, never letting it get out of control. I suppose
it must be about six foot high and it has always looked very neat and
beautiful. I wish my privet hedge looked half as nice.

This week he has started cutting it back nearly to the trunk. This
morning I was walking past and he was there. "What a shame," I said.
"Were you told to cut it back by the Council?" "Yes," he said.

Apparently the reason he has been told to cut it back is that it
overhangs the pavement. Not by very much and it doesn't incommode
pedestrians. I know because I walk past it several times a week.

So why am I cross? Because all the way down the road there are cars
parked *on* the pavement making it a real obstacle course for the
pedestrian. Does the Council try to do anything about them? No! They
just have a go at someone who has provided something that looks
beautiful and doesn't incommode the pedestrian.

Bah!

I couldn't agree more.

Mary
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David Rance wrote:
Down the road from us there has been a lovely cypress hedge for the last
twenty years. I saw it planted and have admired it ever since. The owner
has tended it lovingly, never letting it get out of control. I suppose
it must be about six foot high and it has always looked very neat and
beautiful. I wish my privet hedge looked half as nice.

This week he has started cutting it back nearly to the trunk. This
morning I was walking past and he was there. "What a shame," I said.
"Were you told to cut it back by the Council?" "Yes," he said.

Apparently the reason he has been told to cut it back is that it
overhangs the pavement. Not by very much and it doesn't incommode
pedestrians. I know because I walk past it several times a week.

So why am I cross? Because all the way down the road there are cars
parked *on* the pavement making it a real obstacle course for the
pedestrian. Does the Council try to do anything about them? No! They
just have a go at someone who has provided something that looks
beautiful and doesn't incommode the pedestrian.

Bah!

Fair enough being cross if this particular hedge was not inconveniencing
anyone, but where I used to live I spent half my journey to work walking
along the road because one gardener after another allowed their trees
and shrubs (not hedges) to completely block the pavement. I wish the
council had told them to cut back a bit!

Fair enough being cross if this particular hedge was not inconveniencing
anyone, but where I used to live I spent half my journey to work walking
along the road because one gardener after another allowed their trees
and shrubs (not hedges) to completely block the pavement. I wish the
council had told them to cut back a bit!

In this street it's sometimes possible to squeeze past cars on the pavement
but not if you're pushing a pram. There's a nursery at the bottom of the
street so every day young mums are forced on the road with prams and
toddlers.

Mary

Mary Fisher wrote:
Fair enough being cross if this particular hedge was not inconveniencing
anyone, but where I used to live I spent half my journey to work walking
along the road because one gardener after another allowed their trees
and shrubs (not hedges) to completely block the pavement. I wish the
council had told them to cut back a bit!


In this street it's sometimes possible to squeeze past cars on the pavement
but not if you're pushing a pram. There's a nursery at the bottom of the
street so every day young mums are forced on the road with prams and
toddlers.

Mary




The surprising thing is that, with the exception of central London,
there doesn't even seem to be any law against parking on the pavement!

The surprising thing is that, with the exception of central London,
there doesn't even seem to be any law against parking on the pavement!

There isn't. It's illegal to DRIVE on the pavement but you have to be caught
in the act.

Our kerbs were raised to prevent drivers mounting them. but at the edge of
every house drive the kerbs were graded down to the road level - so that
wheelchairs could get up and down them.

Which reminds me that every house in the street has a drive. Hardly anyone
puts a car in their drive. We do - and anyone who parks on our pavement
only does it once.

Mary

"Mary wrote in message ...
The surprising thing is that, with the exception of central London,
there doesn't even seem to be any law against parking on the pavement!

There isn't. It's illegal to DRIVE on the pavement but you have to be
caught
in the act.

Our kerbs were raised to prevent drivers mounting them. but at the edge of
every house drive the kerbs were graded down to the road level - so that
wheelchairs could get up and down them.

Which reminds me that every house in the street has a drive. Hardly anyone
puts a car in their drive. We do - and anyone who parks on our pavement
only does it once.


I thought that was why SUV's (sorry 4X4's) are so popular, for driving up
kerbs. It's the only offroading most of them get. :-)

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Bob

Use a useful Screen Saver...
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and find intelligent life amongst the stars, there's bugger all down here.

Ben wrote:

Fair enough being cross if this particular hedge was not
inconveniencing anyone, but where I used to live I spent half my
journey to work walking along the road because one gardener after
another allowed their trees and shrubs (not hedges) to completely
block the pavement. I wish the council had told them to cut back a
bit!

Complain to the council, it is their responsibility to keep the pathways
clear. They should write to the owners telling them to cut their
hedges/trees

Steve R

---
One piece, one button suit, timeless fashion. All made by the same
manufacturer, no designer label, everybody has one.

Mary Fisher wrote:
In this street it's sometimes possible to squeeze past cars on the
pavement but not if you're pushing a pram. There's a nursery at the
bottom of the street so every day young mums are forced on the road
with prams and toddlers.


A chat with the local constabulary should get a result. Failing that 'borrow
a trolley from the local supermarket and scrape it down the side of the
cars, they soon learn.

--

Steve R

---
One piece, one button suit, timeless fashion. All made by the same
manufacturer, no designer label, everybody has one.

Ben wrote:
The surprising thing is that, with the exception of central London,
there doesn't even seem to be any law against parking on the
pavement!

Ah but there is!

Steve R

---
One piece, one button suit, timeless fashion. All made by the same
manufacturer, no designer label, everybody has one.

Bob Hobden wrote:
I thought that was why SUV's (sorry 4X4's) are so popular, for
driving up kerbs. It's the only offroading most of them get. :-)

You noticed that as well.
Steve R

---
One piece, one button suit, timeless fashion. All made by the same
manufacturer, no designer label, everybody has one.

"Essjay001" wrote
Mary Fisher wrote:
In this street it's sometimes possible to squeeze past cars on the
pavement but not if you're pushing a pram. There's a nursery at
the
bottom of the street so every day young mums are forced on the
road
with prams and toddlers.


A chat with the local constabulary should get a result. Failing that
'borrow
a trolley from the local supermarket and scrape it down the side of
the
cars, they soon learn.
Steve R

I don't know what colour the warning tickets about incorrect parking
are in the UK, but here in Holland they are a fetching shade of
yellow.

Get some paper that's a similar colour to that used and make yuor own
'warning' to put under offenders windscreens wipers............Might
not cure them all but a few migth take notice :~))

Jenny

"Essjay001" wrote in message
...
Ben wrote:

Fair enough being cross if this particular hedge was not
inconveniencing anyone, but where I used to live I spent half my
journey to work walking along the road because one gardener after
another allowed their trees and shrubs (not hedges) to completely
block the pavement. I wish the council had told them to cut back a
bit!

Complain to the council, it is their responsibility to keep the pathways
clear. They should write to the owners telling them to cut their
hedges/trees

Steve R

---
One piece, one button suit, timeless fashion. All made by the same
manufacturer, no designer label, everybody has one.

It is an offence to park on the pavement. Here is an amusing story.

A friend lives beside a busy dual carriageway with a very wide pavement. It
is usual for people to park on that pavement to aviod causing an obstruction
to the road, the pavement is so wide that it will easily accommadate a pram
as well.

His daughter aquired a new boy friend who lived on a nearby "problem"
estate. One evening when he took the girl home by car he was followed by a
police car, when he parked on the pavement he was imediately booked.
My friend phoned the police to complain, and insisted that they sent someone
arround to deal with the matter.

When an inspector arrived he said that as the paperwork was done the
prosecution would have to go through. My friend had sent his son out to
photograph the inspectors car. The case was dropped, work out why! :-)
He also gave a copy of the photograph to all the local residents.
Cheers
John T

Those trollies cost the supermarkets several hundred pounds each, I wouldn't
want anyone to get done for "nicking" one of them.
I know they tried this in the early eighties with the bread baskets, and now
they'll do you if you own a blue pallet !!!

Talking of which there was a garden makeover prog with Monty Don and Carol
Klein, in which two blokes built a raised deck using blue pallets, and it
was all done on film, they had to apologise the next week, since the blue
pallets all belong to one company and they NEVER sell them to anyone, so any
found anywhere are theirs, he he he

Duncan

"Essjay001" wrote in message
...
Mary Fisher wrote:
In this street it's sometimes possible to squeeze past cars on the
pavement but not if you're pushing a pram. There's a nursery at the
bottom of the street so every day young mums are forced on the road
with prams and toddlers.


A chat with the local constabulary should get a result. Failing that
'borrow
a trolley from the local supermarket and scrape it down the side of the
cars, they soon learn.

--

Steve R

---
One piece, one button suit, timeless fashion. All made by the same
manufacturer, no designer label, everybody has one.

Essjay001 wrote:
Ben wrote:

The surprising thing is that, with the exception of central London,
there doesn't even seem to be any law against parking on the
pavement!


Ah but there is!

Oh, do tell - do you know what the specific offence is?