Pensioner ordered to stop mowing grass because it’s too tidy
16th October 2008
Brian Hubbard has regularly cut and weeded the small patch of grass outside his three-bedroom home since he moved in four years ago.
He also picks up any litter, rakes the leaves and cleans up after the council contractors have left their grass cuttings.
But he has received a letter accusing him of “encroaching” on council land and been told that he must stop tending to the grass and “return the area to its original state within 28 days” or the work would be carried out at his expense.
Well, that’s government for you.