‘It’s just taking ages for them to cut the bush back. The gardeners have been here three days and have finished the front of the garden.
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‘It’s chaos around there. “There is long queues tailing back from the lights”, the resident continued.
If only the Floo Network was real…
Unfortunately, the Harry Potter author was not able to wave a magic wand to have the 30ft hedge that shields her house from the road cut.
And we reckon even the Dursleys would be pretty impressed with her shrubery effort.
Pictures show traffic backed up along the surrounding roads due to the temporary traffic lights which have been installed while the work is carried out, and one local resident tells British newspaper The Daily Telegraph, “The hedges are obviously to stop people looking into her property”.
Cypress bushes grow in excess of 50 feet if left untended, so Rowling has also brought in a cherry picker to help the workmen reach the higher parts of the hedge, but this is slowing things down more.
She was given permission for the £250,000 project by City of Edinburgh council despite objections from several neighbours who were already upset by other renovations around her home.
It’s not the first time she’s caused a stir in the neighbourhood after buying the 1970s property next door for a reported £1million in order to flatten it so she could extend her own back garden.
The following year she won planning permission to build two luxurious Hogwarts-style tree houses in her garden, despite protests from local residents.
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The two-storey structures are on stilts and feature secret tunnels, a rope bridge and turreted roofs.
