- Location
- Lincolnshire
I never had such criticism as when I had a hedge in a village laid. By local hedge laying master. Incommers....they know f**k all.
You simply can't win...
- Thread starter TheTallGuy
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Tubbylew
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
Apparantley, the done thing, is to warn the local council's hedge officer before you coppice anything, so they can deflect the inevitable complaint before it starts. I'm getting weary of justifying myself to the ignorant.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
rubbish to that. The pigshit ignorant population of this country should keep their noses out of things that have nothing to do with them.
The same lot were upset about their view! But not concerned enough to pay £50k each to own their view.
The same lot were upset about their view! But not concerned enough to pay £50k each to own their view.
If you can find a copy, the BTCV handbook on hedges was a masterpiece
Hedging | A practical conservation handbook from TCV
Learn the art of hedge laying, how to restore neglected hedges, as well as planning and creating a new hedge. Lots of background information about hedgerows - their history, conservation value and the law.
www.conservationhandbooks.com
- Location
- South Molton
As does astro turf on cow tracks.
Micro plastic pollution!
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
It was planting hedges that sparked the french revolution
Anything Richard Mabey writes is going to get my support before I have read it. On this I see the plastic guards as a distraction, the real issue is why the fudge is the taxpayer paying out all this money for 'hedges' that produce no environmental benefit whatsoever due to being kept like lines of bonsai. I decided years ago that the only reason it goes on around here is to be taxpayer funded pikey barriers.
- Location
- People's Republic of South Yorkshire
Because we have no union or vocal body to counter and correct this stuff.
- Location
- South Molton
Hedges can afford protection to fauna and flora.
Will be Same payment for a small bush type and a 4m wide 2m tall Devon bank with hedge and ditch both sides!
Tubbylew
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
- Location
- South Molton
Seen today couple arrested for £6million furlough fraud.
Hedges pale into insignificance
- Location
- South Molton
That's about work that can vary immensely on varying hedges.
I was thinking more on the capacity of a hedge to deliver benefits
primmiemoo
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- Location
- Devon
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Don’t hedges that are ‘paid for by the taxpayer’ have to up a certain planting spec, as well as subsequent management (at least until the contract ends)?
I know hedges that are planted as part of a Glastir scheme have to be planted at 7 per metre, in a staggered double row.
If the taxpayer is paying for double fencing, they have to be at least 2m apart.
There is then a minimum height that it can be cut to in the following years, although some daft buggers just let them grow tall and straggly instead.
I know hedges that are planted as part of a Glastir scheme have to be planted at 7 per metre, in a staggered double row.
If the taxpayer is paying for double fencing, they have to be at least 2m apart.
There is then a minimum height that it can be cut to in the following years, although some daft buggers just let them grow tall and straggly instead.
ollie989898
Member
What carp. The bloke doesn't know what he is on about. Hedges have not been around for millenia. They are a man-made construct.
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
Hedges in Wales to get a grant, have to be double rows (staggered), with no more than 75% one variety, and double fenced to keep animals out, 3m wide, so obviously if you don't have those rules in England you are working to a very different standard ~ but I am sure the rules would be pretty similar in England, maybe someone could enlighten us? And I will say, if there is a rabbit problem, guards are a must, just lucky here that I am so high up in the hills that they are not a problem.
Tubbylew
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- Location
- Herefordshire
The requirements are similar but the payment rates are a fair bit different iirc.