Overgrown footpath depressing Higham Ferrers widow as weeds encroach her fence and garden
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00:00I'm very affected by it. I'm depressed and can't sleep. I just can't do it.
00:07I've been to the ombudsman, everywhere, nobody will help and I'm so depressed.
00:15I've come to come and clear it. I'd like to come so I can enjoy my garden.
00:21I'll have a look on the internet and this is part of the Antisocial Behaviour Act, Part 8.
00:30And they said complain to the council. What do you do when it is the council?
00:34And they won't do anything. People use this. Children use this.
00:41Look at that. They said that's not a hedge. What would you call it? It's not an independent tree, is it?
00:47Look at that. Is that an edge? I don't know what it is.
00:53Is this a protected tree? Look. Is that protected? I don't think so.
01:04You see, they put a board up all along there and it's all coming this way.
01:09It's the council's land. I think it's the fault with planning because when they did it with planning,
01:17they should have put a reference to these and seen what's going to happen to this.
01:23I want it clear so people can enjoy walking down there. The ramblers, I don't mind them coming down.
01:49I mean, you can't even, it's blocked, completely blocked.
01:54This is all, unless it comes up, you see, I can't get rid of this.
02:07Look, there's that one. It goes over my hut, that one.
02:11Hang on, hold yourself there.
02:19Ain't it bad? It hates all that.
02:27It's worse as you get down.
02:30That's hanging over my, that's my house.
02:39That man's put his head, he ought to put in a claim, I wouldn't know.
02:43See, this is mine and I keep, they said it's my, I know I've probably got a bit of a responsibility to that, but I haven't got that.
02:53A woman up at this end, not this alley, the other, each had her own growing out.
02:58The council sent a letter saying if she don't cut it down, it's a footpath, they wouldn't charge her.
03:05Can I charge them for this lot?
03:14See, look, that, that, that's still on mine.
03:29Where do I put it then? Do I block the gateway?
03:35Hang on, you can't get by me back there.
03:44If that man had hurt himself all he did, I would have climbed on the council.
03:52It's all coming my way.
03:54Look, and they're dumping their stuff there, look at that.
03:58He'll want to clean it up.