Briefing from the Prime Minister’s Official Spokesman on: High Hedges.
High Hedges
The Prime Minister’s Official Spokesman (PMOS) drew journalists’ attention to a press notice from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister today regarding high hedges. He said that the Government had tabled an amendment to the Anti-Social Behaviour Bill yesterday to give local authorities the power to intervene in high hedge disputes which neighbours were unable to resolve. Ever since Stephen Pound’s Private Member’s Bill had been blocked in the Commons, we had said that we would be looking for ways to get this legislation on the statute books. Existing common law rights did little to prevent the problems high hedges caused. Although they entitled people to cut back overhanging branches to the property boundary line, they did nothing about hedge height. The Government had therefore decided that the Anti-Social Behaviour Bill was the appropriate vehicle for these measures. The PMOS advised journalists that the report stage for the Bill in the Lords would take place on Thursday.
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