Neighbors hedge (grisillina) has overgrown into our garden.

Neighbors hedge (grisillina) has overgrown into our garden.

I have to buy a lopper to deal with it and then dispose of the trimmings. We already bought a hedge trimmer but it would never deal with this. We did not trim it last year because we were busy with personal matters.
Half my bank holiday is going to be gone chopping the thing.
How is this fair?

House is rented, no point having a chat with the occupant and don't want to have fight with neighbors I never met.

Just ranting.

OP, before you go and buy machinery you need to contact the landlord and ask him or her to remove the hedging. It's not fair that you are left to dispose of it. Why should you take their cost? Also its really nothing to do with the renters so theirs no need to be falling out with them. It's their landlords problem.

OP. Dont cut the thing As above ask their landlord to do it. I bought a house 2 years ago. A hedge planted on my side separates us from the neighbours. My neighbour mentioned to me that its my responsibility to cut it as its on my side. Fair enough I thought. Seing as I cut my side anyway its not that bad to cut the other side.

The landlord should be maintaining the garden in the rented house anyway or have an agreement with the people renting it. He or they should make sure the hedge is cut appropriately

In order for the landlord to cut the hedge on your side, he needs access to your property. If he gets injured, or injures someone else, you may be liable.

The normal practice would for you to cut the branches / foliage that over-hang your property and return them for disposal to the landlord's property.

I understand it officially may be the hedge growers responsibility to cut both sides but it seems a tad unfair that in our case for example, we're thus "responsible" for cutting both sides of a hedge which acts as a boundary between us and the neighbours - i.e. if we didn't have a hedge on our side they'd have to grow one on their side.

Isnt it reasonable for each side to maintain it themselves? Also, I'd hate to have to ask their permission to enter their garden each time we need to cut it. As to them dumping the cuttings for us to dispose of - that would be very inconvenient as we have to plan in advance when we can set time aside to bring cuttings to the dump so they could be left sitting around for weeks. Just seems a bit petty, but maybe thats just me.....

You could have planted a wall or a fence instead of a hedge.

Padraigb said:

You could have planted a wall or a fence instead of a hedge.

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I suppose, but ours is an old road, everyone has high hedges between their houses, in most cases higher than walls or fences would usually go, seems to have just come down to chance which side the hedge was planted on, I certainly don't mind maintaining the hedge on the other side of our garden which is growing from the other neighbours side.

Just my opinion of course

We have a fence! The hedge is over the 6 foot fence.

Owners seem to pay a guy to trim it once a year but he leaves it too high and does not do our side.

I chopped some of it on Saturday but it needs a lopper to remove a lot of the branches.