Hi all, just wondering if anyone else has had similar experience and how you dealt with it. Lived in current house 11 years. Neighbour one side is a single man, late 50s maybe. I am 69 single female. His front and back garden have always been terribly overgrown. He has attempted to do it twice in 11 years. He got a mate round who does a cursory cut back for a few pounds. The fir hedge between our back gardens is about 3m. His side is more like 4.5m now. Over 11 years I have attempted to cut his side, climbing a ladder, barricading myself in with bins for safety. He also has a bay tree near the houses which is about 6m. Again I have attempted over the years to keep it under control as it’s 3.5 m from my house and could start affecting my house insurance. A couple of years ago my son in law brought the height down as best he could of the bay and hedge. The whole of his garden is a jungle, foxes live in it etc. The point is, I just cannot manage to do his hedge side, and his tree anymore. I am retired, arthritis in every part of me and it’s incredibly hard just to manage my side. ( these are old houses and all boundaries are shared). My son in law does what he can but he works all the hours God sends, and their own home needs masses doing to it. He also feels neighbour should pull his finger out. I have spoken to neighbour over and over about it. He is always polite, says he will do something, but never does. He does work, but not a lot. I just think he is lazy. I have made it clear I cannot do it anymore. You can put in a high hedge complaint with the council but it costs £605 to put in an application and they do not even promise they will do anything! And then what after? Will they keep monitoring that he’s maintaining? I doubt that. I am looking for cheap solutions. He wouldn’t care what I did as long as he did not have to do anything or pay anything. Thanks.
