I’m forced to live in darkness thanks to council’s HUGE towering hedge – it’s destroyed my fence and ruined my garden

A FUMING grandma says her beingness has go a "nightmare" due to the fact that of an overgrown hedge which has destroyed her garden.

Betty Calloway, 90, said her garden has been "swallowed" by the severely maintained hedge.

The pensioner moved into the bungalow earlier this twelvemonth pursuing the decease of her hubby George successful 2022.

Betty says her beingness has since go hellish owed to an overgrown hedge which towers much than 15ft (4.5m) implicit her garden.

The bushes are truthful dense they are causing her obstruction to buckle and person wholly submerged her plot into darkness.

They person adjacent started blocking immoderate airy coming done her bungalow windows.

The hedge runs the magnitude of her spot on an alleyway that backs onto the adjacent Brookside property and belongs to Telford and Wrekin Council.

Betty said: "It is good implicit 15ft precocious and is conscionable huge. It's virtually swallowing the garden.

"It is blocking the airy and falling each implicit the garden. It has besides damaged the obstruction and made a mess.

"I'm truly acrophobic and disquieted astir it. I person called the assembly and they said it was each successful hand, but cipher has been out.

"I'm 90. I can't chopped it myself. I don't cognize what other I tin do."

The two-bedroom spot successful Stirchley, Teford, Shropshire outgo £260,000 and utilized to beryllium location to Betty and George successful the earlier days of their relationship.

The couple, who were joined for 72 years, lived successful the spot for 3 years earlier moving into assisted surviving successful 2017 erstwhile George's wellness deteriorated.

After George died Betty decided to determination backmost to their erstwhile home.

"After helium died I saw the bungalow was connected the marketplace and I enactment an connection in.

"It sounds silly but I consciousness similar George is inactive with maine here," she said.

Betty, who utilized to tally a edifice with George earlier they retired, said the brace had cared for the plot arsenic champion they could.

Whilst admitting the plot is "in a spot of a state" due to the fact that it's been neglected, she said the hedge is the council's work to look after.

But contempt repeatedly calling them astir her concerns nary 1 has been retired to sermon cutting it back.

A Telford & Wrekin Council spokesperson said: "We’re grateful that this has been brought backmost to our attraction and person visited Mrs Calloway contiguous to inspect the hedge.

We carried retired works on this pathway successful the past six weeks and wrong the adjacent 3 weeks, we’ll bash further works to trim the tallness of different 40-metre agelong of hedgerow, arsenic portion of our focussed attraction enactment astatine cardinal locations astir the borough."