BCP Council has cut the hedges lining Banks Road as part of a regeneration project called ‘hard pruning’. A debate has arisen between residents, some of whom believe the removal of the hedges will ...

Coppicing removes the hedge down to a stump, usually by chainsaw to about 5-10cm height. “It’s cheap, and the only way of rejuvenating a dying hedge,” he says. “It allows you to replant the gaps and ...

It’s legal hedgerow-cutting season now and around Kerry and nationwide, farmers, landowners, contractors and council workers are busy cutting hedges, especially roadside ones. It’s important to keep ...

Families are furious they are having to look out on power station cooling towers after a hedgerow was cut down outside their homes. Householders on the Ladygrove estate at Didcot are fed up after ...

The Minister of State for Agriculture and Food, Liam Aylward, has launched a new series of Teagasc leaflets on hedgerow management for farmers. The series consists of four leaflets which detail the ...

A historic feature of the landscape is coming under increasing threat, according to a new study. A survey of hedgerows in the Gateshead, Sunderland, Darlington and County Durham areas found that a ...

HEDGEROWS in Sandbanks have been branded an "eyesore" after they were ‘cut back to stumps’. BCP Council has cut the hedges lining Banks Road as part of a regeneration project called ‘hard pruning’. A ...