The law has been four years in the drafting since Environment’s predecessor, Planning and Environment, accepted Deputy Terry Le Main’s 1999 projet to rid the Island of leylandii and other types of tall hedging.Environment hope to put their draft High Hedge Law out for public consultation in the near future.Plans to charge complainants for invoking the law are likely to prove contentious, especially from householders whose properties are adversely affected by neighbouring high hedges.It is proposed that the law will be administered by the Planning and Environment Department, whose chief officer, John Young, said that the charges would not be excessive, but were necessary to cover the costs of investigating complaints and implementing the law.
