Home ‘devalued’ by neighbour’s overgrown garden

A HOUSE owner in the plush Embassy belt of the Dublin 4 area told a judge yesterday his home was being devalued by the way a neighbour was allowing her garden to grow wild.

William Carroll, of 8 Argyle Road, Ballsbridge, said in the Circuit Civil Court his gardener regularly had to cut back and bag briars and overgrowth across his perimeter wall from next-door neighbour Adrienne Barry’s home.

Barrister Jeananne McGovern, who appeared for Carroll, told Circuit Court President Mr Justice Matthew Deery that the overgrowth was so heavy in places that it was restricting light getting into Mr Carroll’s kitchen and lounge and blocking a common guttering between the two houses.