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Privacy under axe
• Like many London residents, we live pretty check by jowl with our neighbours. Until a few years ago, we had some privacy because a long line of beautiful old trees divided the back gardens.
In the last few years, however, as the neighbourhood has gone upmarket and new owners have “poshed” up their gardens, the trees have been subjected to treatment which I can only describe as “butchery”.
I believe the trees are protected and so cannot be completely uprooted, or perhaps it would be too expensive to do so. What people have done is either cut these beautiful old trees down to stumps, or cut off virtually all their branches, leaving simply the centre trunk and amputated stumps of branches.
I sympathise with people wishing to have more sunlight for their gardens, but wonder what are the “rights”, if any, of others impacted by their savage mutilation of these trees.
In our case, the trees do not stand in our garden, or in most cases overhang it, but their mutilation means we now peer into virtually every window of some five to six houses, and vice versa.
If we want any privacy in the rooms at the back of our house, we now have to keep the blinds drawn at all times, or simply know more about our neighbours than we ever cared to.
How can I find out if indeed they do benefit in principle from any kind of council protection? They are, or I should probably say, were, the trees that divided the gardens between Hugo and Corinne roads, in Tufnell Park.
M PLANT
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