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How big should you let your bush grow?


Muley

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If a front garden is bordered by a hedge that extends out over the pavement, how far out is considered acceptable? It's not unusual for about a third of the pavement space to be lost to overhanging hedges, causing a bottleneck should there be a lamp post or tree at the kerbside opposite, and bloody awkward on narrow pavements on residential streets.


I feel the tingle of a coming 'hedge rage'...




BTW, you know you read the title of this thread and clicked on it for all the wrong reasons...

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if it causes an obstruction it needs to be trimmed back, when it rains the branches gain wait and hang outwards so if you brush past them you get a soaking, also this makes less room for (say) parents with prams, basic obligation is to keep it in order.

having said that, must trim mine it's been a few years.

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KidKruger Wrote:

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> if it causes an obstruction it needs to be trimmed

> back, when it rains the branches gain wait and

> hang outwards so if you brush past them you get a

> soaking, also this makes less room for (say)

> parents with prams, basic obligation is to keep it

> in order.

> having said that, must trim mine it's been a few

> years.


We are talking about your pubes here right????

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SteveT Wrote:

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> The growth should not extend beyond the boundary

> of the property, and if Southwark get involved

> they charge you for doing the maintenance the

> owner should have carried out, I believe.


This is right. It can hinder and injure blind and visually impaired people as well as others. A lot of property owners don't give a damn. Report any problem hedges to Southwark.

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