 Residents can make formal complaints about their neighbour’s hedge, under Part 8 of the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003. The council can only intervene once you have tried, and exhausted, all avenues for resolving your hedge dispute.
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About complaining
Form for making a high hedge complaint to the council (pdf doc, 73kb)
Guidance for filling in the complaint form (pdf doc, 36kb)
Further help
Over the garden hedge (pdf doc, 1Mb)
High Hedges: complaining to the council (pdf doc, 394kb)
High Hedges: appealing against the Council's decision (pdf doc, 314kb)
Notes
There are other sources of information concerning high hedges. You might want to try:
The Communities and Local Government (formerly ODPM (Office of the Deputy Prime Minister)) website www.communities.gov.uk
Hedgeline website
http://freespace.virgin.net/clare.h/#MAIN
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