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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 wrote: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.

Big RR wrote:

Daisy wrote: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?