Neighbours planning restriction is on my land!

[WhyCantPeopleBeNice]

Hopefully you can all help, my neighbours have applied for planning permission for a menage, this will be VERY close to my property.
Despite objections our planning committee gave them permission. There was a planting scheme clause and they had to submit plans. Work has started so I checked the portal and hey presto plans were submitted (but not shared with neighbours)

Their planting scheme includes a hedge on my land and states it must not be cut below 2 metres.
I'm not being funny, but WTF?

This has apparently been approved as building works have started.

We objected because the original plan had a road less than 6 metres from our kitchen window for machinery and the menage will be 10 metres away. It was pushed back 1 metre so now only 11 metres away because they were made to put in a planting scheme but this planting scheme is my existing hedge, a 1.8 metre fence and then them planting some laurel (50cm high!)

Can the planning department really allow them to include my hedge in their planting scheme?
Can they place a restriction on it, without our knowledge?

According to their plans I am now responsible for a maintenance course as set out by them and approved of the council to reduce the impact they are causing me.

Please someone tell me if this is allowed? We had plans to remove part of our hedge to fit a summer house in and now it looks like we cant

Well as the OP is also talking about stables, I’d say it’s pretty clear. 🙄

Enough with the ménage/ manège / manage / menagerie comments 🤣

It's also spelled wrong in the planning application plans which the OP shared earlier in the thread, but it's not causing genuine confusion, let's be honest.

Although... OP could you appeal the decision on that basis? You thought they applied for a ménage but now you've discovered it's a manège with horses

Welcome to the countryside. Pretty gutted you are chopping down a native hedgerow for a sauna, you should be encouraging its growth.

@silverclock222 don't worry, we're taking out 2 metres. 15 metres of our native hedgerow will still remain, considering on one side it's flanked be leylandii and the other a hedgerow that's been overtaken by elder, ivy and sycamore saplings - i'm not convinced were ruining any wildlife corridors!

This. You need to tell them immediately that this hedge cannot form part of the planting scheme because it lies outside of the application site and the applicant has no control over it. They will be forced to rejig the planting scheme and possibly push it back another metre.

You should have engaged a professional planning consultant to fight this for you . It all seems a bit late now though .