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No, our hedge is along the side of the house where the drive / side access is which are all concrete. Our next door neighbour backs onto his actual backgarden. Where the massive leylandi is, so his own tree is shading his garden.
My assumptions is has taken the opportunity whilst probate went through to create more light for his concrete sidepassage and grab a few inches of land to make it wider. Anyways shade or not, you arent legally allowed to lean over and cut the tops of neighbours trees, if it wasnt him, it was someone who tresspassed onto his land to do it...
Why not grub the whole thing out? There's a nice fence behind it after all, and it would give you a bit more garden.
Fair enough. I'd still take the whole lot out. Hateful things
My neighbours did a very similar thing to my hedge 🙁 well half of it as I caught them in the act and stopped them
I'd rip out the old ones and plant new ones. Web says they can grow 2-3 ft/year. So you could have your privacy back in a couple of years, max. Be sure to fertilize them regularly! 😈
And I'd build the permitted max size shed the min distance from the property line, too!
Plant some eucalyptus trees where the leylandi were 😈
I would go and see him and say....
"Hello Neighbour, I love your boat topiary.
Thanks for cutting down & clearing the horribly high hedge,it's let loads more light onto the lawn! Would you mind if we cut down the very high leylandi on the left too? I think regulations state that kind of hedge should be kept at 2.5 m"
Then I would clear it and build a shed - maybe start a thread on the build... 😀
😈 😈Nothing says "**** you, neighbour" like [b]killing your neighbours[/b] Leylandii hedge
Personally, I think you should cut the other ones down to match. The foliate surface will regrow, and if kept trimmed at their new height will eventually fill out again.
Or, do the right thing, and rip the entire lot out, grind out the stumps and replant the hedges with Hawthorn.
Bamboo is also a good fast grower and screener that won't grow to 40's
Leylandi unless very well maintained (like spending your weekends not cycling ) is a nightmare... I'm just looking now and the one outside I cut last year has grown 4-5' and can't be trimmed to take less space (as in the circle it covers) as it would just be dead twigs.