Garden Law Discussion

Is the hedge protected by a soft landscaping condition / shown for retention on the site plan? If not, when you remove it you would probably be best employing the tree surgeon to grind out the stumps to 30cm depth, that way there's no danger of your neighbour's garden getting ripped up with the stum...

How do you like them apples??

No - you're wrong. Has anyone ever got successful recompense for this sort of issue? Not sure which way you are approaching this from, there is no law to prevent leaves and other natural debris from falling onto someone elses land. If you throw a mustard seed over the boundary, the law considers it...

arborlad wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 03, 2018 8:44 am

Eliza wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 03, 2018 8:36 am

Surely not "flytipping" - just a case of putting THEIR property back onto THEIR land.

No - you're wrong.

Has anyone ever got successful recompense for this sort of issue?

arborlad wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 26, 2018 9:33 am

Is there a way to access this without having to sign-in to something?

Its pretty much a summary of every phonecall you've ever had if you've worked in local authority.

Ha, that's textbook

That's not a problem with the tpo, it's a problem with your neighbours!

Neighbour's gardener or your gardener?

Hi, did they go as far as to investigate your high hedge complaint and issue a decision notice? If so, your appeal would be to the Planning Inspectorate, see here: https://www.gov.uk/appeal-high-hedges-decision. If not, then it sounds like it was not validated in which case they should explain the r...

the written contract and plans are the only relevant info...whatever sales patter you were given is then irrelevant and you make it clear that with full knowledge that you don't own the hedge/trees, you choose to proceed and buy a property with a 6m high trees owned by a neighbour and over which yo...

Are you Scotland or England?

It doesn't matter unless they all fund their separate complaints, the council validate them and the council issue remedial notices. This combination of events although possible, is unlikely. The stumbling blocks are either the lack of will to dip into their own pocket to pay for the complaint (non r...

Hi APC, Thanks for the reply....yes it is Calderdale Council. There are 8 new houses altogether, 4 of them adjacent to my boundary and 4 adjacent to my neighbours (within the tree line). Do you know whether or not the housing developer (who still owns the houses and rents them out) can bring the co...

If this is Calderdale Council, their fee for high hedge complaints is £460. This will be per complaint. An individual complaint will cover one section of hedge/one property. Unless that has been paid by the complainant(s), the council has investigated the complaint and issued a remedial notice, you ...

Has your neighbour got hold of every shred of the documents submitted for the planning etc for these townhouses Because usually the fact trees exist as a screen is why planning is granted and thus they cannot later demand removal of that screen Depends whether they are protected by tpo, condition o...