Kitchen Garden Forum

peter wrote:The regulations are for hedges not trees.

It is a hedge really - dreaded leylandii!!

Nature's Babe wrote:thank you Peter, I wasn't quite sure, I wonder how they resolve it when a hedge with hawthorn in it is neglected and grows into a tree.

I guess you'd have to prove it was planted and / or previosuly treated as a hedge. Best way would be by photographs and that would establish that it had been neglected.