Moved in a few months ago. Neighbours next door aren't a total nuisance, but have built a permanent music room in their back garden, make sure to play music pretty loudly on hot days while smoking cannabis etc, car alarm that goes of at 3am every other morning, stupid front light that illuminates the whole street if it detects any movement etc, which is irritating but I can't do anything about (Not really relevant but don't want to drip feed).
The issue we have is their 4 meter plus tall leylandii. They grew it all around their garden for privacy, I assume, so affects 4 neighbours (two at the back too), blocks out light and grows over our boundary significantly.
I wouldn't care about the overgrowth if it was a reasonable height, but it spans the entire 15 meters length of our garden and is a huge, expensive job to cut back as we can't do it ourselves. They don't bother cutting the top so in places it is more like 5 meters and it's just bloody ridiculous quite frankly. A shorter hedge would be manageable for us and not put our garden in complete shade for the entire day but as it stands even with our tall ladder we can barely reach the top and it's not safe for us, so we have to hire someone to do it.
AIBU to take this to the council? Previous people here had more issues with them including the bush, which they refused to cut and the y (previous residents of our house) couldn't be bothered with the hassle of the council at the time.