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Dept for Transport Local Government and the Regions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, when the project by the Building Research Establishment and Tree Advice Trust to develop an objective way of assessing the obstruction of light by hedges will be completed; and when the report will be published. - Inc...

Asked by

Gareth Thomas (Labour; Co-operative Party)

Answering body

Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions

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Written questions

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Answered

Tabled on

6 December 2001

For answer on

10 December 2001

Answered on

10 December 2001

Mr. Gareth R. Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions when the project by the Building Research Establishment and Tree Advice Trust to develop an objective way of assessing the obstruction of light by hedges will be completed; and when the report will be published. [22164] Ms Keeble: The Building Research Establishment (BRE) and Tree Advice Trust have now completed their project to develop an objective method for assessing whether high hedges block too much daylight and sunlight to adjoining properties, and to provide guidance on hedge heights to alleviate these problems. Copies of the final report of their work, together with guidelines for calculating hedge height, have been placed in the Libraries of both Houses. These documents are also being published on my Department's website. The guidelines explain how to calculate whether a hedge is likely to block out too much light from a garden and from the main rooms of a house. In relation to gardens, the procedure looks at what portion of the garden is shaded by the hedge and what direction it faces. For the rooms of a house, the main factor is the distance from its windows to the hedge. Some of the details of this formula have been refined in the light of the results of consultation and field-testing on a sample of problem hedges. We want to encourage people to apply the BRE guidelines to their problem hedge and to use the results to try to settle matters with their neighbours amicably. We will, therefore, be preparing a leaflet specifically designed for this purpose. It will include a simplified version of the BRE guidelines as well as advice on how people might approach their neighbours with this information to try and agree a solution. We will be involving local authority, professional, consumer and advice groups in its development and expect to launch the leaflet in spring next year. We recognise, of course, that in some cases guidance and voluntary action is no substitute for a legal remedy. We remain committed, therefore, to bringing forward legislation to set up a statutory complaints system for dealing with high hedge problems as soon as there is space in the Parliamentary timetable.

Date

10 December 2001

Reference

376 c584-5W; 22164

House

House of Commons

Dept for Transport Local Government and the Regions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what action the Government proposes to take in response to the final report of the Building Research Establishment and Tree Advice Trust on evergreen hedges; and if he will make a statement; if he will place in...

Asked by

Christopher Chope (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions

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Written questions

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Answered

Date

22 November 2001

Reference

375 c391W;375 c393W; 16413;16414

House

House of Commons

Dept of the Environment Transport and the Regions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what the terms of reference given to the Building Research Establishment and Tree Advice Trust are to develop an objective way of assessing the obstruction of light by hedges; when the report will be completed; and when...

Asked by

Christopher Chope (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

23 April 2001

Reference

158469; 367 c69W

House

House of Commons

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