it's not a question of starting wars, or retaliation, he's breaking the law. To say Leylandii should be banned because there are some out of control examples is as facile as saying a boy was killed by a dog in Cornwall at the weekend, so all dogs should be killed.
My last comment was slightly tongue-in-cheek! However, I do think there comes a point with some neighbours, following polite, respectful conversations and all attempts to resolve things amicably, where you have to assert your rights to have a privacy hedge on your own property without it being butchered. Just because they don’t like it does not give them the right to interfere with it. Its bullying, basically.
Good luck Jennifer!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
We inherited an overgrown laurel hedge at one house and when we trimmed it back to the trunks it was extremely see through. Our neighbour complaind vigorously that we had done it but within the next year it was providing as good a screen as ever and we had regained about 1-5m of ground. The neighbour had already told us that he didn't socialise with neighbours because of his job (police) so the fact that he never spoke to us again didn't make any difference!
The comment "good fences make good neighbours" is from the poem 'Mending Wall' by Robert Frost and he was being entirely facetious. The poem illustrates how much the opposite is true.
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To say Leylandii should be banned because there are some out of control examples is as facile as saying a boy was killed by a dog in Cornwall at the weekend, so all dogs should be killed.
Good luck Jennifer!
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him."