High Hedges Bill — Established hedges — 27 Apr 2001

Not amended in the Standing Committee, considered.

Brought up, and read the First time.

I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.

Mr. Speaker:

With this it will be convenient to discuss the following amendments: No. 3, in clause 2, page 2, line 7, leave out from "means" to first "a" in line 9 and insert--

The Bill refers to two trees planted, to take the extreme, 35 inches apart as amounting to a hedge. That is ludicrous. It does not accord with common parlance and it certainly does not accord with the horticultural dictionary prepared by that most respectable body, the RHS.

An example is given of an appeal case in 1904, in which two boroughs in New Zealand six miles apart at their closest were held to be adjacent for the purposes of statutory contributions to the cost of building a bridge. I will not read out all the other references in the dictionary in relation to "adjacent", but the House will be interested in the use of the phrase "adjacent to the common boundary", which was included in a restrictive covenant. That was the subject of litigation in 1968, and the result was a finding that the expression was too vague to be enforceable.

Question put, That the clause be read a Second time:--

The House divided: Ayes 1, Noes 35.

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Bob AinsworthCoventry North EastLab (minister)no
Mr Paul BoatengBrent SouthLab (minister)no
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Mr Peter BrookeCities of London and WestminsterCon (front bench)no
Des BrowneKilmarnock and LoudounLab (minister)no
Mr Tony ClarkeNorthampton SouthLabno
Frank CookStockton NorthLabno
Mr Tom CoxTootingLabno
Jim CunninghamCoventry SouthLab (minister)tellaye
Claire Curtis-ThomasCrosbyLabno
Andrew DismoreHendonLabtellaye
Jim DowdLewisham WestLab (minister)no
Maria EagleLiverpool, GarstonLabno
Clive EffordElthamLab (minister)no
Don FosterBathLDem (front bench)no
Mike GapesIlford SouthLab (minister)no
Mr Christopher GillLudlowContellno
Evan HarrisOxford West and AbingdonLDemno
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Eric JoyceFalkirk WestLabno
Mr Andy KingRugby and KenilworthLabno
Peter LilleyHitchin and HarpendenConno
Tim LoughtonEast Worthing and ShorehamCon (front bench)no
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Andrew MacKinlayThurrockLabno
Steve McCabeBirmingham, Hall GreenLab (minister)no
Bill OlnerNuneatonLabno
Ian PearsonDudley SouthLab (minister)no
Steve PoundEaling NorthLab (minister)no
Bridget PrenticeLewisham EastLabno
Dennis SkinnerBolsoverLab (minister)no
Mr Clive SoleyEaling, Acton and Shepherd's BushLab (minister)no
Mr Nick St AubynGuildfordConno
Anthony SteenTotnesConno
Desmond SwayneNew Forest WestCon (front bench)aye
Mrs Ann TaylorDewsburyLab (minister)no
Mr John TaylorSolihullContellno
Mr Peter Temple-MorrisLeominsterwhilst Labno
Alan WhiteheadSouthampton, TestLabno
Mr Brian WilsonCunninghame NorthLab (minister)no

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