Boundary hedge

[MikeUniformMike]

NDN has cut down the hedge between our gardens and is telling me I need to put up a fence.
I don't know whose boundary it is but I think it was his hedge.
I have no privacy.
What do I do?

My house number follows his (e.g. his is 15 and mine is 17)

No. I think they cut them down on a whim.
If they want a digger, they will need access to their garden, and they won't be bringing it through mine. I'm EOT, they are MT.

CFs

Complete CF

chicken wire fence is relatively cheap

You could try cheap bamboo screening. It's in the sales now summer is over

That's a thought. Thanks. The hedge or what is left of it is a mess and it would hide it.

Still a bit expensive. I was thinking of something dirt cheap and not very attractive like a washing line with several tarps on it.
Part of the boundary has very tatty fencing, they have left that.
I'll see what I can find in the pound shop.

Just buy a few laurel plants and put in allowing two foot for boundary, you can purchase about 4 to cover ultimately 3/4 meters at a push, this would give you privacy near the house and eventually cover his mess

please do get a copy of the pln from Land Registry.

it is cheap and easy.

Asking neighbours or the counvil will achieve nothing.

If you end up fencing it, you can bang in some stakes on the boundary line (the fence stumps will not be a problem) and string wire between them. Cheapest and easiest. You can add plastic or wire netting at extra cost if you wish to make it slightly harder for a dog to get through.

A good fence with concrete posts costs thousands (don't use wooden posts because it is a lot of work replacing them when they rot, which they will.

If you like hedging you can poke cuttings into the ground an inch inside the boundary. I have Box and you can literally poke the twigs from prunings into the ground in Autumn, after stripping the leaves, and they will mostly root. So you can have a thousand cuttings from one evergreen bush. But it is small and slow-growing.

Nobody can compel you to put up a fence or hedge if you don't want to.

this sort of thing is quite cheap and there may be a local supplier, but wielding a big hammer is heavy work.

Thanks PigletJohn.
The loss of privacy bothers me and it looks a mess.
They nor I have a dog.
Where would I get box hedging?
Are there any other plants I could try. I'm not keen on laurel.
I have several plants in pots, that could be replanted but the soil will be dreadful.

Bareroot plants like laurel are available from garden centres or online throughout the winter and are cheaper than potted.

Thanks. I'll have to google hedging.
The soil will be dreadful as NDN says that the leylandii have been there 30 yrs.

Surely if the Leylandi were planted their side of the boundary it's their ex-hedge and problem. Do you have the strength to sit tight and let them fester?

It's the loss of privacy and security that worries me.
They plonked a hanging basket that I had hung from the hedge on top of some potted mint.