Hedges that encroach onto a footpath badly - Resporting it
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surveyor_101 said:
eccles said:
Ah, first world problems! 
What sort of issue causes you to rise then, are you flying to Syria to assist with the relief effort and therefore anyone getting upset about an issue like this has a charmed life?eccles said:
No, I just find it quite amusing that you or you Mrs can't just knock on the door and ask the bloke to trim his hedge. Also the whole 'I have to walk in single file for a yard' issue is hardly an something to get my knickers in twist about. How do you manage on bin days?
It's a main route to the path to access the development, so a busy thoroughfare for school run, it's only pavement one side no pavement on the other side. The odd bin to dodge isn't 10-12m strip of hedge round the bend. I am unreasonable as I have 4 children under 10 to get to and from school so it's more of an issue for my family.I have spoken to a neighbours and live in a nearby street and judging by there massive overgrown hedges I would suggest they are they type of neighbour to be a bit awkward, clearly they have an issue with anyone over looking their property, why else have these massive hedges blocking any views into your boundary. I saw their comments on a recent planning objection and it mentioned blocking light to some of their hedge! Lol
I can speak to them but if they turn funny I could end with a sour relationship and my wife has to walk pass their house twice a day for the next few years.
Same with a idiot neighbour with 6 cars parked in other peoples spaces and drove like a nutter round our old street. I had a nice word he didn't like it and it turned nasty. He called the police on me after he realised he was on a hiding to nothing. Several neighbours were canvases by police and they threatened the guy with a section 59. Who ended up getting dodgy looks and being tailgatesd around town. Me and the wife not all the other neighbours who were also fed up. I learnt then best to remain Anonymous and let the authorities deal with it.
It's nice to think you can have a pleasant chat and I get your point but if you fall out it's neighbours it can be unpleasant for years.
Edited by surveyor_101 on Saturday 28th January 21:30
Edited by surveyor_101 on Saturday 28th January 21:38
surveyor_101 said:
judging by there massive overgrown hedges suggest they are they type of neighbour to be a bit awkward, Clealry they have an issue with anyone over looking their property, why else have these massive hedges blocking any views into your boundary.
Two separate things. I would be more than happy to have hedges of similar height, and they would specifically be to stop people seeing into my property. Doesn't mean I wouldn't trim them to stop the issue of encroaching onto the path.surveyor_101 said:
It's nice to think you can have a pleasant chat but if you fall out it's neighbours it can be unpleasant for years.
Not even trying to have the chat and just dragging the "offical" recourse of the council etc into it right off the bat is a bit silly.InitialDave said:
Not even trying to have the chat and just dragging the "offical" recourse of the council etc into it right off the bat is a bit silly.
No because if I have a chat and they don't like it aim stuffed either way. They fall out with us, or I call the council and they know who grassed either way stuffed. Or if I am lucky they say sorry I will get it trimmed unlikely since they paid someone in Nov and they didn't do front or rear to deal with the encroachment into other boundaries.
InitialDave said:
Not even trying to have the chat and just dragging the "offical" recourse of the council etc into it right off the bat is a bit silly.
If you want privacy a modern development isn't for you there fear hedge blocks light into my neighbours garden makes it flaming dark it's 6ft over the 6ft fence. It's not a national trust Georgian manor.
t so fsurveyor_101 said:
eccles said:
No, I just find it quite amusing that you or you Mrs can't just knock on the door and ask the bloke to trim his hedge. Also the whole 'I have to walk in single file for a yard' issue is hardly an something to get my knickers in twist about. How do you manage on bin days?
It's a main route to the path to access the development, so a busy thoroughfare for school run, it's only pavement one side no pavement on the other side. The odd bin to dodge isn't 10-12m strip of hedge round the bend. I am unreasonable as I have 4 children under 10 to get to and from school so it's more of an issue for my family.I have spoken to a neighbours and live in a nearby street and judging by there massive overgrown hedges I would suggest they are they type of neighbour to be a bit awkward, clearly they have an issue with anyone over looking their property, why else have these massive hedges blocking any views into your boundary. I saw their comments on a recent planning objection and it mentioned blocking light to some of their hedge! Lol
I can speak to them but if they turn funny I could end with a sour relationship and my wife has to walk pass their house twice a day for the next few years.
Same with a idiot neighbour with 6 cars parked in other peoples spaces and drove like a nutter round our old street. I had a nice word he didn't like it and it turned nasty. He called the police on me after he realised he was on a hiding to nothing. Several neighbours were canvases by police and they threatened the guy with a section 59. Who ended up getting dodgy looks and being tailgatesd around town. Me and the wife not all the other neighbours who were also fed up. I learnt then best to remain Anonymous and let the authorities deal with it.
It's nice to think you can have a pleasant chat and I get your point but if you fall out it's neighbours it can be unpleasant for years.
Edited by surveyor_101 on Saturday 28th January 21:30
Edited by surveyor_101 on Saturday 28th January 21:38
Check you house deeds. Many estates carry restrictive covenants dealing with boundary markers etc and a lot limit the type and size of hedges and walls etc., especially at the front.
Normally these are not enforced much beyond the developer competing and leaving site but could give another lever to use.
Normally these are not enforced much beyond the developer competing and leaving site but could give another lever to use.
CaptainCosworth said:
akirk said:
simply a lack of gardening skill 
- hedge planted too near the boundary to allow for growth either side / trimmed too infrequently
+1 This pretty much sums up the problem - hedge planted too near the boundary to allow for growth either side / trimmed too infrequently eccles said:
4rephill said:
eccles said:
surveyor_101 said:
think this is taking the pee.
People have to pass in single file on the school run.
Ah, first world problems! People have to pass in single file on the school run.
If it's wide enough for single file then a wheel chair or a pram can get through. Blind people manage to walk in parks and other places where there are bushes.
Are we all suddenly going to die now if we put a foot off the pavement?
eccles said:
Talk about melodramatic!
If it's wide enough for single file then a wheel chair or a pram can get through. Blind people manage to walk in parks and other places where there are bushes.
Are we all suddenly going to die now if we put a foot off the pavement?
My late father was blind and he walked everywhere on his own.Providing of course the pathway was clear,he used to use his stick and follow the fences.Can you imagine him walking into this lot!!If it's wide enough for single file then a wheel chair or a pram can get through. Blind people manage to walk in parks and other places where there are bushes.
Are we all suddenly going to die now if we put a foot off the pavement?
I suppose you would expect him,an old lady in a wheelchair,a young mum with a baby to walk into the road and around the parked cars.
Yes there are more important issues to get worked up about.The owners of this property can not give a toss.Their response to a request to cut it back was to say p** off and hold a party with music blaring away till 02.00am.
In my old village someone from the parish council walked up the road and knocked on everyone's door whose hedge was growing over the pavement and told the owners to get it cut or be reported.
I only remember this because one of my (loud) neighbours went off like a rocket when so advised.
Then cut his hedge.
I only remember this because one of my (loud) neighbours went off like a rocket when so advised.
Then cut his hedge.
You could try the direct but anonymous route.
I had this through my door just before Christmas, it did need doing, but gardening isn't top of my priority list. Especially in the run up to Christmas.
I would rather who ever it was knocked on the door, so I could explain it's not laziness I'm very busy etc. But they didn't and I still cut the hedge.
The hedge itself is a pita, a super fast growing bush thing. It's been cut 3-4 times this year, it will become a nice fence soon!
I had this through my door just before Christmas, it did need doing, but gardening isn't top of my priority list. Especially in the run up to Christmas.
I would rather who ever it was knocked on the door, so I could explain it's not laziness I'm very busy etc. But they didn't and I still cut the hedge.
The hedge itself is a pita, a super fast growing bush thing. It's been cut 3-4 times this year, it will become a nice fence soon!
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