Plymouth, UK, residents have complained to the council about the trees outside David Alvand's home, completely filling the front garden. Planted in 1991, shortly after the 66-year-old moved into the area, the famously fast-growing trees - better known as leylandii - are now more than 10 metres tall.
As well as completely obscuring the front of Alvand's home, their higher branches overhang his neighbors' roofs, as well as the pavement. One neighbor said they block out sunlight and make the street look bad.
(via Boing Boing)
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substitute for graffiti?
Take that, Google Street View.
That actually qualifies as a nuisance hedge so the council should be taking action not encouraging mediation. Apparently the council want the complainants to pay up £300 to investigate. Interesting, can you imagine if the police did that every time you reported a crime.
And the guy has history. He built a ten foot wall around his back yard in contravention of a planning order.
I he lived next door to me I'd move. But not before digging down on my side of the fence and poisoning the roots of his trees.
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