{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/high-hedges-fees-wales-regulations-2004/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/high-hedges-fees-wales-regulations-2004/note.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2004/3241",
  "legislation_title": "The High Hedges (Fees) (Wales) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/high-hedges-fees-wales-regulations-2004",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nPart 8 of the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003 gives local authorities the power to deal with complaints about high hedges which are having an adverse effect on a neighbour’s enjoyment of his or her property.\nA complaint may be made by the owner or occupier of a domestic property if that person’s reasonable enjoyment of the property is being adversely affected by the height of a hedge situated on land owned or occupied by another person.\nA complaint must be made to the local authority in whose area the land on which the hedge is situated lies and must be accompanied by a fee determined by the local authority (subject to a maximum amount prescribed in regulations made, in relation to hedges situated in Wales, by the National Assembly for Wales).\nThese Regulations prescribe that maximum amount.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2004/3241/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:07:19.555565+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}