The Wildlife Trust: Dial 999 if you see anyone (neighbour or farmer) trimming a hedge after Thursday

[Steevo]

"The Wildlife Trust suggests people check their hedge both from a distance, using binoculars, and up close.

The body is also urging you to report on neighbours, farmers or landowners who are brazenly breaking the rules and recklessly cutting their hedges by reporting them to the police for investigation by a Wildlife Crime Officer or calling 999 if necessary."

Cut your hedge by Thursday to make sure you're not breaking the law

The Wildlife Trust has urged people to trim their hedges by March 1, when the bird breeding season begins, to avoid breaking a law dating back to 1981 and potentially having to make a court appearance.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[SRRC]

People had plenty of practise during Covid, dobbing in their neighbours.
Can't wait for the first tabloid story on this, only it was mowing grass.

 

[Bury the Trash]

see here ..

Hedge cutting deadline 2024

Has the rule been relaxed for this year for stopping cutting on the last day of February? Just been told it may have been due to eu law running out last year?

thefarmingforum.co.uk

that chap comes out side of his garden and cuts our side (even though i trim it most years ), as well an arrogant man who does what he wants .and is always on the make or take..
should i report him to the police? when he comes out trimming in june which he probab;y will because he does every year , well no i woint because i have to get on with the goon on a daily basis .

 

[CornishTone]

I hope anyone calling 999 for this gets done for wasting police time!

 

[010101]

Quick Google shows 1981 wildlife act hedge trimming rules are if there is a bird's nest. How the flying can you tell if there is a bird's nest from binocular distances unless you have been watching the hedge for a fair while, in which case why phone the police emergency number when sharing of your knowledge (talking) with the person cutting the hedge saves public/Police money and builds community?

This is an antisocial attitude from the Wildlife Trust. Is it not society that provides their funding?

 

[Rnold]

see here ..

Hedge cutting deadline 2024

Has the rule been relaxed for this year for stopping cutting on the last day of February? Just been told it may have been due to eu law running out last year?

thefarmingforum.co.uk

that chap comes out side of his garden and cuts our side (even though i trim it most years ), as well an arrogant man who does what he wants .and is always on the make or take..
should i report him to the police? when he comes out trimming in june which he probab;y will because he does every year , well no i woint because i have to get on with the goon on a daily basis .

You ought to report him. You don't want the blame when somebody notices that one side off your hedge has been trimmed presumably by you.

 

[Bald Rick]

Wildlife Trusts are getting a bit hoitty toitty under their current CEO. Was a time when they were happy managing their reserves and making applications for funding.

 

[upnortheast]

Wildlife Trusts are getting a bit hoitty toitty under their current CEO. Was a time when they were happy managing their reserves and making applications for funding.

It`s all the bloody exposure they get on Countryfile.
Boils my pee, the implication is no good work can be done without a Wildlife Trust.
Totally ignore all the work done on farms every day,

 

[010101]

What is it about news stories that are basically commands about my future behaviour ordered by people who I have no power to vote against?

Authoritarian wannabees are dangerous.

 

[Poncherello1976]

I look forward to a visit. I have someone coming out on Monday to cut a roadside hedge. Their trimmer broke and so could not do it this week! I will check that over the weekend a bird has not made a nest!

 

[steveR]

I look forward to a visit. I have someone coming out on Monday to cut a roadside hedge. Their trimmer broke and so could not do it this week! I will check that over the weekend a bird has not made a nest!

Note it in your Diary......

 

[Swarfmonkey]

Wildlife Trusts are getting a bit hoitty toitty under their current CEO. Was a time when they were happy managing their reserves and making applications for funding.

Can't stand that lot. They're grifting plenty of taxpayers dosh for managing reserves on behalf of local authorities in the south, and from what i've seen they're doing very little for the money. If anything their lack of real management on the ground has led to increases in wildfires, the big fire on Chobham Common a few years ago being a direct result of the WT doing naff all to manage the fuel load.

 

[betweenthelines]

I was well up for some "reckless hedge trimming" on Friday but having second thoughts if Inspector Gorse will be after me!

He's the top cop in the specialist anti hedge cutting squad known as Acacia 12-soon to be seen in the hard hitting cop show Hedge Line of Duty.

 

[betweenthelines]

"999 which service do you require? Fire Police or Topiary?"

 

[teslacoils]

Well, if plod get a call to catch an errant hedge trimmer, or one to get a quad bike back from a certain kind of camp, you know which one they will respond to.

 

[Barleymow]

They will get mutilated by the tree shear if they get too close here

 

[Michael S]

They will get mutilated by the tree shear if they get too close here

If you are using a tree shear you are presumably coppicing and that is ok until the end of March. Go figure.

 

[spark plug]

All the local birds have been a right nuisance loitering around street corners and bus stops, waiting for Friday to start nest building.

 

[Hjcarter]

Cut some hedge a month ago, where do I stand clearing the brash out - not cutting, just pulling it out....

 

[Post Driver]

Cut some hedge a month ago, where do I stand clearing the brash out - not cutting, just pulling it out....

Stand well clear of any moving machinery