Ownership of a hedge

[eggsarascal]

3 hours ago, Muddy42 said:

 

Yes, it would be logical that the fence was constructed on the boundary and the hedge grew up around it, but who knows.  

If no orher evidence could be provided that would be my starting point for debate, if needed.

[Mesterh]

If there are branches stopping you from using your driveway then cut them off and get rid of them. No one will stop you from doing that no matter who owns the hedge. 

 

[kram]

Generally you are responsible for your side and shouod maintain it, and in most cases a fence will mark the boundry, after 12 years it can be claimed as the boundry.

 

Where as if its just a fence, usually each homeowner will be responsible for one side, which on ours is the left, when looking out the front, cant remember if theres a standard for that or not.

 

Our neighbour had two large leylandii on each corner of garden. They eventually had one removed our side (before I started tree work) but left the other side. When it was time for the fence, they had the contractors be lazy and put the fence inside of the tree, gifting a couple square meters to the other neighbour.

The leylandii is twice the hieght of house and damaged by a council birch, I will see if I can get the job of topping it down to a sensible height some day.

Edited June 26 by kram

[spudulike]

The chain link fence is most likely the original boundary if your house was built over the last 50 years or so. The deeds often state that a fence of this type will form the boundary.

A very loose rule is that in a reasonable percentage of cases, the boundary owned by the house will be in the right facing the house but this isn't always the case but is most common.

On the deeds, the "T" denotes ownership, "H" denotes a shared ownership.

If the link fence matches up with the rear garden, this would also lean me to think it is the boundary.

You can cut the hedge face, top and roots  back on your side but if it dies or causes injury etc you may be found liable.

Long and short, cut it back to a point where it will survive and grow back to form a green barrier. Neighbours can be dicks, use this period to "make hay" and get the hedge in to good order and use the link fence as a guide.