High hedge rented house

Bluebonnie

Inventory doesn't mention condition of the hedge - so it's difficult to see how you are required to maintain it at a ridiculous height.

Suggest you turn the 10ft high hedge into a 4ft high hedge.
You may need a some help to do this, but you would find it easy to maintain thereafter.

Gwhiz

Your LL sounds like an !!!! to be honest.

I would just trim whatever is safe to do.

LisaLou1982

You took the house on knowing that there was a hedge. If you had bought the house would you assume that it was the mortgage companies responsibility to cut it?

I honestly dispair sometimes of tenants who try to make any excuse to get out of managing a garden. You viewed the house and took it as it was. Its your responsibility to maintain it.

Stop being so precious about having to climb a ladder. Many of us have to do it everyday. Do you have a disability which stops you from standing on a ladder? If you genuinely cant manage it then get a gardener in to do it for you. The longer you leave it the worse it will get.

I do agree that if it really is 10ft high then that is going to take you some time to do it, but you should have raised this before you took out the tenancy and asked for it to be done.

princeofpounds

If the inventory doesn't mention the condition of the hedge, they will have a hard time getting any moeny from you to fund cutting it.

If it was tall and unkempt at the beggining, and it doesn't bother you, then if it's a little bit taller and equally unkempt at the end that's fine.

hudashley_2

If I'm honest I'm past doing what is 'right' with my landlord and LA, and am looking to move as soon as my tenancies up. I'm being hounded every other week, they're ignoring repairs that need doing and giving access to the property to people without my consent or even informing me.

If it was my property I'd cut the hedge down, its an eye sore and blocks sun to the front garden.

hudashley_2

I enquired as to the clause stating that I am not to cut bushes trees etc, apparently this doesn't apply when the landlord gives permission. My contract does not say this, and with the amount of times they've quoted the contract to me negating common sense, sirely this does not apply?

jjlandlord

hudashley wrote: »

I enquired as to the clause stating that I am not to cut bushes trees etc, apparently this doesn't apply when the landlord gives permission. My contract does not say this.

A contract reflects an agreement between parties.
Whatever the terms, they all can be changed if the parties agree. Obviously.

Let's say you agree something with someone. If later either of you wishes to change that you discuss and reach a new agreement, right?

laidbackgjr

I've just had a tenant vacate and they had not undertaken any maintenance of the garden hedge, I have successfully claimed the £50 cost of getting a contractor in to trim the hedge back to the size and condition it was at the start of the tenancy from the deposit that was protected, this was despite the tenant disputing this deduction.

hudashley_2

But I havent agreed. I'm happy with the hedge at this length. What shes saying is I need to pay for it cutting when my contract states not to.

thesaint

hudashley wrote: »

I enquired as to the clause stating that I am not to cut bushes trees etc, apparently this doesn't apply when the landlord gives permission. My contract does not say this, and with the amount of times they've quoted the contract to me negating common sense, sirely this does not apply?

They are talking out of their back passage.

The landlord can give permission, isn't the same as the landlord requiring you to cut it.