Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Matters Relating to High Hedges: notes to local authorities, published by the Department for Communities and Local Government in 2008, page 5, what the conclusions were of the review of high hedges legislation.

My Department has no plans to review existing high hedges legislation. Local authorities are best-placed to resolve private disputes about tall evergreen hedges and loss of light and visual amenity to neighbouring homes and gardens.