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Planning conditions
How should Councils deal with high hedge complaints where there is a planning condition requiring the hedge to be maintained at a certain height?
Paragraphs 5.95 and 5.96 of High Hedges Complaints: Prevention and Cure suggest that, in determining a high hedge complaint, Councils should take account of the reasons why such a condition was attached to the original planning permission. The age of the planning permission and the extent to which circumstances have altered in the meantime might also be material. Any remedial notice issued in response to a complaint would not, however, override a planning condition.
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