Next door cutting down my hedge......

paddedjohn

amcluesent wrote: »

IMHO, unless you have acres then 2m boundary\hedging is quite sufficient for privacy on a housing estate. Anything more shows selfish behaviour.

Even if the garden is 12 x12 it's up to the OP how they look after their plants /hedge, 2m isn't excessive at all.

rpc

amcluesent wrote: »

IMHO, unless you have acres then 2m boundary\hedging is quite sufficient for privacy on a housing estate. Anything more shows selfish behaviour.

Not really. Our hedges are much higher and necessarily so. The 'ground' level of the house behind us is about 1.5m above our own. If our hedge was only 2m high then we would have no privacy whatsoever.

In my last house, our neighours were a block of flats at the end of the terrace. With 5 floors, a 2m high hedge would again give no privacy.

I'd really like to replace the fence and hedge at our current house, but this height difference would cause substantial loss of privacy for years.

keystone

rpc wrote: »

Tosh. Our hedges are much higher and necessarily so. The 'ground' level of the house behind us is about 1.5m above our own. If our hedge was only 2m high then we would have no privacy whatsoever.

An acceptable norm is 2m on the high side not the low side so the poster your are being critical of isn't actually talking tosh. This is also how its applied to fences. Its 2 metres for the next door neighbour - if your garden is lower you can legally put up a higher fence but no higher than 2m measured on their side.

2m is also the yardstick (sorry) that councils will use when looking at taking action against evergreen or semi-evergreen hedges under highhedge legislation if they receive a complaint

In your case your neighbour would only have cause for complaint if your hedge was a) evergreen, b) higher than 3½ metres when measured from your side and a couple of other criteria.

Cheers

motherofstudents

I thought anything cut off by a neighbour had to be thrown over into the owner's garden. This is what our neighbour at the back did and he threw them all over the bottom of our garden which I thought was very rude and un-neighbourly to say the least.

We didn't do or say anything as we thought that he was doing the correct thing even though it didn't seem very nice. But he's not very nice.

sunflower_2

Mr_Thrifty wrote: »

It sounds like there is a very easy solution to this.

Phone up your neighbour, and tell them you're OK with them trimming the hedge on their side but you don't want its height reduced.

Just talk.

do people actually read the posts & comments before letting their fingers roam across the keyboard??

;):o

MoneySaverLog

motherofstudents wrote: »

I thought anything cut off by a neighbour had to be thrown over into the owner's garden.

Yes, otherwise it could be considered theft

keystone

motherofstudents wrote: »

I thought anything cut off by a neighbour had to be thrown over into the owner's garden.

No you offer them back to the owner who may decide that you can keep them in which case its down to you to arrange disposal. But in all probablility you've had the nouse to discuss it with them first.

Cheers

penguingirl

We just cut back a lot of ivy that had come over from our neighbour's side of the fence- I think they would have laughed if we had offered it to them. We felt cheeky enough asking if we could borrow their green wheelie bin because ours was full...

keystone

penguingirl wrote: »

We just cut back a lot of ivy that had come over from our neighbour's side of the fence- I think they would have laughed if we had offered it to them.

Maybe they would and maybe most people would but that wouldn't and doesn't alter the legal position.

We felt cheeky enough asking if we could borrow their green wheelie bin because ours was full...

Don't see why. It was their bloody ivy!

But you have nicely illustrated the benefits of discussing the matter sensibly.

Cheers

penguingirl

keystone wrote: »

Maybe they would and maybe most people would but that wouldn't and doesn't alter the legal position.

Don't see why. It was their bloody ivy!

Haha, i know- but have you ever tried taking down ivy off a rotten fence panel (to replace it) without accidently chopping down some of the neighbours ivy? Pretty much impossible...

But you have nicely illustrated the benefits of discussing the matter sensibly.

Well yes it does make things much easier. From threads on here though you would sometimes think that everyone hates their neighbours (not referring to this thread as this is a slightly different situation).