We used to live next door to an elderly couple who employed a gardener to maintain their beautiful garden, their pride and joy. They died and the house has been sold to an Asian family who have systematically razed all the mature shrubs to the ground and burned them. Our boundary is a 3-4ft stone wall and a line of trees/large shrubs, planted on either side but the crowns overhang the wall. On our side is a huge Clematis Montana that grew through a fig tree on our side but mostly through a large hawthorn on theirs. All of this is well established long before we bought our house. The new neighbour's have cut through the climber on their side of the wall, killing 90% of it. I assume the hawthorn is for the chop too, but at the moment instead of the full spring glory of C Montana I have a load of dead climber hanging over into my garden. Once they have finished vandalising the garden we will have no privacy because the wall is not high enough, we both relied on the 'green screen' above. Next door to them is a HMO with high fire escapes on which people congregate in summer, now with a nice view straight into our garden. I know they are within their rights if not their right mind to do what they want on their property though it makes me sad. Do you think C Montana will survive the butchery? Do you have any ideas how we can regain some privacy?