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Cutting back neighbours privet hedge
sthlndngrower
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Hi,
I have decided to radically prune my neighbours privet hedge. It's about 3 metres tall, and as they have a gardener, is kept really neat on their side. My side, I have struggled to keep in check, it's generally neat but encroaches on my garden to a width of about a metre. It is full of I think, vine weevil. So, today out with the loppers and hedge timmer!
i think I am within my rights to trim back to the boundary. Should I give the cuttings to my neighbour to dispose of? I have no car and therefore cannot take them to the tip. I could burn it, but wonder will this be ok too add to fruit beds, or would I be better disposing of it it otherwise? This may incur a cost though.
your thoughts fellow GWers, gratefully received!
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If you get on with the neighbours just let them know that you are going to cut it back to the boundary and ask if their gardener would be able to dispose of the prunings as you have no car.
The hedge between ourselves and our neighbour became unmanageable and was bald in the middle where its own weight, and winter snow, had pulled it apart. We removed the entire thing and each regained over a metre of garden width. Result!
Thank you all for your advice.... I will have a friendly chat and see if her Gardeners can take away e prunings, and try and engage in friendly What we both want to make the best of the garden type conversation. Fingers crossed!
once again, many thanks for the advice.
I was a professional gardener for about 30 years. My understanding is that you can legally cut back to the boundary, but you " must offer " your neighbours the prunings. They are under no legal obligation to accept them , nor can you ( I'm sure YOU'D not do this ) just chuck them back over the fence.
Keep it civil, friendly and neighbourly, but if her gardener needs to pay to dispose of them at a local " tip", as it'd be classed as " trade waste", I think it not unreasonable for the you to pay for this.
wouldn't dream of chucking it back into my neighbour's garden, agree Verdun, far too provocative.
Hostafan1, thanks for the tip re professional gardeners needing to pay for trade waste... I suspect in that case they will refuse. I will drop a note in or try and catch her for a friendly chat & offer her the prunings, otherwise i think i will just have to burn it or bag up for the bin men to take, they are supposed to take up to 5 bags per week garden waste.
thanks everyone for all your advice.
happy to help
"bag up for the bin men to take, they are supposed to take up to 5 bags per week garden waste."
Can I bring my green waste to you please? We have to pay £36 per year for the privilege of having our garden waste taken away!
Same here KT, except it's £39 I think. I've never used the system, I have a shredder
In the sticks near Peterborough
i have 4 trees growing over my fence and i happily hack them back if my neighbours want to keep there side neat and tidy that is up to them if there branches come on to my side then i hack them back if they want to get a gardener to come and trim them fair enough if not i will take the shears to the trees what can they say the branches are on my property