Sorry for long thread - but there is background. Even if the consensus is IABU I doubt I will change my mind. OK, lived in house for nearly 20 years, get on well with the side we're joined to - and slightly less so with the other side, which is the side I am having an issue with. I am all for a quiet life, but the worm is turning! When we moved in they had already had an extension built. Their side wall is the boundary. i.e. their foundations are on our land. Nothing we can do about that. Since we moved in they have had a conservatory built with the foundations right up against our land, there is a fence between the conservatory and us, which is 6ft tall. The conservatory has windows 6'6" up 'overlooking' our garden (this is relevant). A few years ago they discovered that the drainpipes couldn't cope with the rainfall from the extension and the conservatory so they had to reroute them along the side of the extension. They asked if we minded as the drainpipe would be obviously on our land. That was fine, and that is how it remains. We have an apple tree, a large rose and a buddleia in that part of the garden. EVERY year, about this time, they come around (actually collar my husband usually as he's putting the bins out) and ask us to cut our bushes back because they tap against the windows. EVERY year we do this. This year I've had enough. I refuse to cut down my buddleia before it has even finished flowering and my rose bush just because they decided to have windows on that side of the conservatory. I will cut it right back in the autumn - down to ground level as they grow like mad. I have bent over backwards to be a good neighbour - a few years ago I let them know they were paying too much for their council tax - they got a £1500 refund and I didn't even get a thankyou - but I seem to being taken for a mug. So AIBU to say fork off until the autumn?