Yep! I know one couple who spent some £10,000 in legal fees over a 'hedge fight'. There is a need to be careful with legislation dealing with hedges as some of them (not generally those between gardens, but the ones edging fields and lanes) have been in place for a thousand years and maybe more. Apparently they are of great historic value, though I don't know the details as to why. Still if someone proposed to take a chainsaw to the hedges bordering some of my local sunken lanes I'd be out there protesting, writing letters and starting an action group. Its an emotional subject, changing ancient landscapes.