Giant leylandii
Good god! Just look at that thing.
It is probably safe to assume that David Alvand likes his privacy. Firstly the civil engineer spent 12 years fighting a court battle over a 3.6-metre (12ft) concrete wall which he erected without planning permission around his back garden.
It was finally dismantled just before the case reached the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
Now it is the front of Alvand’s suburban semi-detached house in Plymouth, Devon, which has agitated the neighbours.
They have launched a formal complaint under antisocial behaviour legislation to force him to cut back the vast leyland cypress trees completely filling the front garden.
Full story over at the Guardian