FOI release

Complaints re neighbours' high hedges

Case reference EIR2026/00568

Received 5 March 2026

Published 2 April 2026

Request

Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request the following information:

-Total number of complaints received regarding neighbours’ high hedges in the 2025 calendar year (Part 8 of the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003)

-Number of complaints received regarding neighbours’ high hedges that were rejected in the 2025 calendar year

-Total amount charged to investigate high hedge complaints in the 2025 calendar year

-Total number and total monetary value of fines issued in the 2025 calendar year due to a failure to act on a remedial notice issued to trim hedges

-Total number of complaints received regarding neighbours’ high hedges in the 2024 calendar year

-Number of complaints received regarding neighbours’ high hedges that were rejected in the 2024 calendar year

-Total amount charged to investigate high hedge complaints in the 2024 calendar year

-Total number and total monetary value of fines issued in the 2024 calendar year due to a failure to act on a remedial notice issued to trim hedges

-Total number of complaints received regarding neighbours’ high hedges in the 2023 calendar year

-Number of complaints received regarding neighbours’ high hedges that were rejected in the 2023 calendar year

-Total amount charged to investigate high hedge complaints in the 2023 calendar year

-Total number and total monetary value of fines issued in the 2023 calendar year due to a failure to act on a remedial notice issued to trim hedges

Response

Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request the following information:

-Total number of complaints received regarding neighbours’ high hedges in the 2025 calendar year (Part 8 of the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003)

-Number of complaints received regarding neighbours’ high hedges that were rejected in the 2025 calendar year

-Total amount charged to investigate high hedge complaints in the 2025 calendar year

-Total number and total monetary value of fines issued in the 2025 calendar year due to a failure to act on a remedial notice issued to trim hedges

-Total number of complaints received regarding neighbours’ high hedges in the 2024 calendar year

-Number of complaints received regarding neighbours’ high hedges that were rejected in the 2024 calendar year

-Total amount charged to investigate high hedge complaints in the 2024 calendar year

-Total number and total monetary value of fines issued in the 2024 calendar year due to a failure to act on a remedial notice issued to trim hedges

-Total number of complaints received regarding neighbours’ high hedges in the 2023 calendar year

-Number of complaints received regarding neighbours’ high hedges that were rejected in the 2023 calendar year

-Total amount charged to investigate high hedge complaints in the 2023 calendar year

-Total number and total monetary value of fines issued in the 2023 calendar year due to a failure to act on a remedial notice issued to trim hedges

A: Please see response attached.

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