Changes to legislation:Highways Act 1980, Section 154 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 19 July 2020. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations. Help about Changes to Legislation154Cutting or felling etc. trees etc. that overhang or are a danger to roads or footpaths.(1)Where a hedge, tree or shrub overhangs a highway or any other road or footpath to which the public has access so as to endanger or obstruct the passage of vehicles or pedestrians, or obstructs or interferes with the view of drivers of vehicles or the light from a public lamp, [F1or overhangs a highway so as to endanger or obstruct the passage of horse-riders,]a competent authority may, by notice either to the owner of the hedge, tree or shrub or to the occupier of the land on which it is growing, require him within 14 days from the date of service of the notice so to lop or cut it as to remove the cause of the danger, obstruction or interference.For the purposes of this section the following are competent authorities—(a)in relation to a highway for which the Minister is the highway authority and which is in a district or London borough, the Minister and also the council of the district or, as the case may be, borough;(b)in relation to a highway for which a local highway authority are the highway authority, that authority and also [F2, if the highway is situated in a non-metropolitan district, the council of that district;](c)in relation to a road or footpath that is not a highway, the local authority in whose area the road or footpath is situated;and “hedge, tree or shrub” includes vegetation of any description.
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