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Salix suckers ........ ??
Is that the White Willow with red-orange bark on young twigs? No it doesn't have suckers, but it can grow into a big tree with invasive roots. You can pollard or coppice it of course, [get more of the young growth that way] which might restrain the roots. But even so it needs to far from any building, and given plenty of space.
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Hazel and hawthorn are good for hedge laying. Hazel doesn't do distant suckers
Blackthorn does do distant suckers
In the sticks near Peterborough
Hawthorn, no suckers
Hazel, suckers but very close to main plants.
Could also try spindle though not as robust.
and holly fills in well and doesn't mind being hacked right back though not tried it (or seen it) in a layed hedge.
Can't beat a good hawthorn hedge
In the sticks near Peterborough