Neighbours, everybody needs good neighbours

[Gob]

If David Alvand has lost his hedge trimmers, he seems unlikely to find them again any time soon.
His three-bedroom semi is in permanent darkness, engulfed by a jungle of leylandii. The 61-year-old allowed the rapidly-growing conifers to shoot up to 35ft after he lost a long legal battle to enclose his property with a wall.

In despair, his long-suffering neighbours have united to launch a formal complaint about his front garden under the Anti-Social Behaviour Act. One said: 'The trees are an eyesore - they block out sunlight and make the street look bad.'



Another said: 'They have gone higher than the roofs of our houses now. They look horrendous.'
Mr Alvand, who describes himself as a civil engineer, planted the 16 leylandii when he moved into the £130,000 house in Plymouth almost 20 years ago.

He also erected a 12ft structure of breeze blocks and corrugated iron around his back garden without planning permission.

A 12-year legal battle followed which almost reached the European Court of Human Rights, but after the city council had spent £20,000 on the case Mr Alvand ripped the wall down in January 2004 ... and concentrated on growing his front hedge.




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[Daisy]

Urgh, the stupid woman next door to us planted these shortly after we bought our house.

By the time we persuaded her to cut them down (14 years later) they were higher than the house and were severely blocking the light to the front rooms of our house.

I hate them, a blight on surburbia.

[Gob]

Hedgeline

[Big RR]

Urgh, the stupid woman next door to us planted these shortly after we bought our house.

By the time we persuaded her to cut them down (14 years later) they were higher than the house and were severely blocking the light to the front rooms of our house.

I hate them, a blight on surburbia.

You hate trees?

[loCAtek]

If he doesn't people or light, the old bugger should live in a cave.

[Daisy]

Urgh, the stupid woman next door to us planted these shortly after we bought our house.

By the time we persuaded her to cut them down (14 years later) they were higher than the house and were severely blocking the light to the front rooms of our house.

I hate them, a blight on surburbia.

You hate trees?

This particular tree yes, it has no place in the gardens of small UK houses, especially of those who can't be arsed to clip them down to a reasonable size. Fast growing and light blocking, they also hinder the growth of any other plants around them. We had given up growing anything in our garden because of them and had the lot paved over before she cut them down.

[oldr_n_wsr]

Need a nice strong hurricane to come through that town. That would solve the problem.

[rubato]

One word: "Roundup".

Dump a small can across the roots of said hedge and it will all die.


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rubato

[dales]

[kristina]

My grandmother was talking with a friend a bemoaning the extremely rapid growth of a neighbor's tree, which was blocking her view. Her friend said "a little rock salt in the winter, dear, and no one will be the wiser."