 She said: "We had a range of wildlife in there including foxes and birds. The noise from the birds when the builders cut it down was just awful. "Some of it was on our boundary, it runs through half of the hedge, so in my view it's technically half ours. "A man arrived with a digger that chopped down trees and hedges and I went down and stopped him and told him the hedge was ours. "The young lad did stop and they agreed to stop and take the building site side out. Builders started chopping down the 'essential' hedge leaving homeowner Jeanette Reid in tears ( Jeanette Reid / SWNS) "They then just ripped it out and left us with a bunch of sticks basically, it did look awful. "Now from every window in the front of the house we have to stare at a big ugly building site." She claims the developers removed the hedge without seeking planning permission and council officials have launched an investigation. Jeanette, who formerly worked in local government,){kind=link}
Jeanette Reid was left in tears when she saw a digger tearing down the shrubbery which she and husband Nigel had nurtured for decades. She and her husband now have a view of a building site
A gran is livid after developers ripped a 20ft-high hedge from outside her home she had lovingly maintained for 22 years.
Jeanette Reid was gutted when she saw a digger tearing down the shrubbery which she and husband Nigel had nurtured.
Now the couple have a 135-house building site directly opposite their home.
Builders tore out the 20ft-high hedge outside their front door in Desborough, Northamptonshire, last month.