The DETR has received so many letters from people frustrated by their neighbours’ refusal to reduce the height of leylandii and other high garden hedges, that it has produce a guide available on the internet to the courses of action available to them.Quick-growing and invasive leylandii can block light to gardens and homes; views from windows and their roots can even damage property through causing subsidence. 

A pre-paid postcard campaign is one of the features of the Listening to Women initiative launched by the Government.They will be available through GPs’ surgeries, libraries, Citizens Advice Bureaux and in mass circulation women’s magazines so that women who might otherwise not be reached can let the Government know their views.
There will also be a Listening to Women roadshow visiting eight regional centres and a conference of women’s organisations in March next year.