Neighbours dangerous overgrown hedge

BarraOG

Hi,

I live next door to an abandoned house which has a 12 foot high laurel along its perimeter with the road. This house is at a junction where an L road meets an R road. My folio is the pink part of the map, see attached picture. The two purple lines are our respective entrances and the yellow line is the fence between us. Just to clarify one further point, the road at the front of my house is the L road, and it splits into two one-way roads, forming a triangle of land at the junction with the busy R road. This island is not drawn on the map but is included in my folio. The council have directional signs on it and are maintaining it.

The hedge around the house next door has grown through their fence by some two feet and as a result obstructs our view as we are driving out of our driveway. Cars fly around this corner.

Who is responsible for this hedge with respect to the part of it growing outside of the fence? The council, the neighbour, or me (since its in my folio). What can I do to get it cut?

Thanks,

Barry

Legalities and the 'right way of doing it' aside, in real life, If the house is abandoned and if the council where you are are anything like Louth county council (useless) then in practice you'll be best to just DIY it.

I don't see anyone passing any remarks to it.

The attachment confuses me though.. Do you own around the front and side of their house? Or am I reading that wrong?

BarraOG

Thanks for the reply.

With regard to the attachment, I "own" from the neighbours boundary out to the centre of the road, all around their house - which is road - which the council really owns. Not exactly sure what the legal implications are of this with regard to the hedge sticking outside this boundary onto the road. The reason the folio looks like this is because both houses were once on the same folio and the split resulted in this anomaly. My understanding is that it is very common for folios to go out to the middle of the road.