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A neighbours' dispute over the size of a hedge on a waterfront property has led a court intervening to resolve the long-running battle after negotiations broke down.
After the first half of 2023 it's Trees 1 - Chainsaws 2.
But within just a few years her cherished views had disappeared - replaced by a wall of green. As the row of cypress trees planted by her neighbours next door grew and grew, Ms Simon could no longer see the north head of the Harbour, and so in 2018 she wrote to them asking if their hedge could be trimmed. When she did not receive a reply, Ms Simon took her neighbours to court. Not only was her multi-million dollar view gone, but so too was much of the sunlight that previously flowed into her home. When Charlotte Simon moved into her $2.75 million home in Vaucluse, in Sydney's east, she expect...