Neighbour keeps cutting my hedge

[Daisyzxcv]

I moved in over a year ago, and the neighbour to the back of my garden keeps cutting my laurel hedge. Now he's not even had the decency to come round and let me know he's going to make a huge mess of leaves and cuttings in my garden, he just happily starts cutting it. I've got a young baby so I've had an hour's sleep last night and wasn't sure if I was being unreasonable in being a bit peeved. It might be useful to add that this is NOT a boundary hedge - it's actually our property. I don't mind him cutting any overhanging branches on his side but the fact is, he was standing on ladders, reaching over at least 3-4 ft onto my side and cutting or should I say, hacking at my hedge so that our side looked a mess. Luckily my other DC wasn't out at the time because he was happily throwing the hedge trimmer over to get a better reach. God forbid that he threw it too far and it caused injury!
I don't know what to do, I hate confrontation... And I'm worried about it being cut back too far because I've heard a very loud, big dog round there sometimes and I worry for the safety of my children if it gets through the hedge.

Any advice is very much appreciated

Signed off - a very tired, stressed out mumma.

By law he’s allowed to cut anything overhanging his garden. The rule is he has to to return the cuttings to you.

Maybe it’s a mess and he’s fed up with looking at it?

and your dc who he's probably perving on too.

Oh ffs. He’s now gone from a hedge vandal to a paedophile. Get a fucking grip.

Get a fucking grip yourself Alexa....some of us live in the real world and are well aware of the kind of thngs that predators do to invade others's boundaries (literally in this case)

Why would you lean over 4 feet into someone else's garden to cut back a hedge that wasn't intruding into your garden in the first place?
Especially when the result is that HE can now see clearly into OP's house and view her family?

You really need to get out of your bubble!

To be honest, if your hedge needs tidying up from his side, then this is what he must do. The top of the hedge needs to be cut all the way back or it will look ridiculous from his side. To avoid this problem again, the only thing you can do is keep the hedge neatly trimmed yourself at all times so that your neighbours garden does not look unsightly. If you don't do it, he will have to. He could reasonably come round and ask you to keep your hedge trimmed, but to avoid confrontation, he simply gets on with the job. It's unlikely that he wants to disturb you since you have a small child and probably don't have the time to keep the hedge nicely trimmed. I would suggest you let this go and feel grateful that your hedge is being topped for you. A good gardener would charge £50 upwards to do the job that he seems happy to do for free and all you have is a few leaves to get rid of.
Looking after a young baby is extremely difficult and can fray your nerves through lack of sleep. If you think clearly you will realise that this is not worth getting upset about. There really is no real danger of him dropping the hedgecutter onto your child's head.

To be honest, if your hedge needs tidying up from his side, then this is what he must do

No he mustn't. It's OP hedge, she says it's not the boundary.

I just wanted to reiterate that I do keep the hedge trimmed and tidy. He cut it back further so no I don't believe he's "doing me a favour" he had no need to trim any of it.