is your hedge taking over the pavement? OR walking to school is a pain!

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Right I have had enough, are you at fault? Can we mumsnetters start a new awareness week? Why don't councils get up off their bottoms and do something useful?

The greater majority of hedges on our walk to school are taking over the pavement, as a result we are having to walk closer to the busy road than we should have to, we are walking in single file and it feels really unsafe with little ones and if you have a pram it's even worse. You get wet from having to brush past some of the hedges and if you are wearing heels, one particular holly hedge actually scrapes your head! (At night some street lights are even covered by the hedges.)
Am I the only one who has this problem, I have contacted the council but not had any response, so MUMSNETTERS lets link arms and if this is a problem for you (and even if it isn't) lets start a claim our pavements back campaign!
So don't talk to me about Walk to School Week I'm fed up of these hedges!

Hedges are ok.
Dogshit jumping is the morning activity though

This is my mum's bugbear - she takes secateurs out when she goes for a walk and chops them all back. She worries the branches will poke a child's eye out.

Have often wanted to do that for the bramble bits that stick out even further but really want a huge chopping maching to go along and tackle them all there are just so many and honestly, the really bad ones have taken over more than half the pavement and I keep wondering how much further they will actually let them go - it's just so bad, think problem is so many people go out in cars they just don't realise how far they have come out over the years

As for dog poo, think this is no longer a problem as the owners would have to have no option but to walk in it as there is no pavement to walk around it!

ok so this gets the vote for the biggest whinge of the day or are mumsnetters the really guilty ones?

it is my bugbear too

I write to my parish council on a yearly basis

you must keep on at the council. tell them you hve to walk in the road and you are worried you will have an accident. Also if you were in a wheelchair they would be infringing your rights.

I take secateurs with me and chop bits back.

and chuck the bits in the offending gardens

I'm absolutely NOT at fault. When we bought this house our hedge was spilling over the pavement by about a foot. I have cut it right back religiously every other weekend in the summer when it grows like wildfire. Not only does it look tidier, but also I don't pi$$ people like you off

I have been known to take my shears to other people's hedges, really annoys me, too. I always let my kids pick leaves off of hedges that all over the pavement, too.