Share A letter she sent to the council said: “I must admit I am starting to feel a little bit ‘bullied’. “If you had seen my house when I moved in, the garden other than the lawn had never been maintained, we have stripped and removed numerous bushes, hedges and trees over the years, painted fences etc to ensure our property is well maintained.” In her original application to the council for a high hedge notice to be granted, Miss Easton said: “The hedge is severely impacting light into my garden throughout most of the day. Linda McKimmie had been ordered to trim the 13ft leylandii to about 6ft before her appeal was won