- A highway closure to permit a hedge trimming at JK Rowling’s house angered locals
- Dad and mom declare their kids have been late for college as a result of rush hour repairs
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JK Rowling right this moment hit again after she was blasted for trimming her large leylandii outdoors her Edinburgh house.
The Harry Potter writer is on the centre of a site visitors row after livid dad and mom complained that works to trim the hedge outdoors her home sparked chaos throughout the morning commute.
The site visitors lights put in outdoors of her £2.2million home brought about site visitors to pile up throughout the school-run.
Talking completely to MailOnline right this moment, Ms Rowling’s representatives insisted that the hedge-trimming occurred yearly and that the site visitors lights are mandatory for security.
A spokesperson mentioned: ‘The hedge reducing at JK Rowling’s residence is annual upkeep that includes mandatory site visitors administration for the security of most people.
‘The intention is at all times to hold out the work with least disruption and the timing requires co-ordination and settlement with Edinburgh Metropolis Council. The work would ideally be scheduled in July, throughout the summer time holidays, however attributable to different upkeep work within the space, it was agreed to happen this week as a substitute.’
Photographs present sections of the highway shut whereas employees use a cherry-picker to hack again the leylandii.
The upkeep works, carried out from 7.30am to three.30pm, are mentioned to have hit the college run

JK Rowling has acquired the ire of neighbours after gardening works to her Edinburgh house

Sections of the highway will likely be closed whereas employees use a cherry-picker from 7.30am to three.30pm

The site visitors chaos attributable to the works to the enormous leylandii hedge
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The works – that are going down between 7.30am and three.30pm for many of the week – have sparked fury amongst dad and mom who’ve complained it’s inflicting them to be late dropping off their kids.
One outraged guardian mentioned: ‘Why cannot they do it within the February breaks? They’ve hours by means of the day when the roads are quiet.
‘No-one else will get the road shut down to chop their hedge.’
A mom mentioned: ‘To trigger site visitors to return to a standstill at rush hour to chop a hedge would not make sense. [It has resulted] in my baby and lots of others being late.
‘I can not perceive why the hedge cannot be executed on the weekend or at much less busy occasions like 9.30am till 2.30pm.’
Planning purposes made by the author to the facade of her house have angered neighbours a number of occasions.
In 2011, she acquired permission to drag down the Seventies property subsequent door, purchased for £1million, to permit a backyard extension. Heritage watchdog The Cockburn Affiliation queried the lack of a ‘completely enough and useful’ house however didn’t lodge a proper objection.
The next 12 months, Rowling was given permission to to construct two luxurious tree homes within the backyard of her house regardless of protests from native residents.
Locals had raised considerations that the massive measurement of the tree homes meant they may very well be seen from the roadside and mentioned they might blight the looks of the encircling conservation space.

The site visitors chaos on the road outdoors the Harry Potter writer’s home

The works have sparked fury amongst dad and mom who’ve complained it’s inflicting them to be late dropping off their kids

The employees have been utilizing a cherry picker to trim the hedge

Photographs obtained by MailOnline present how the site visitors piled up this morning

Enormous tailbacks stretch alongside the highway outdoors the writer’s home because the works block the roads

The trimming, which happens roughly each three years, has led to momentary four-way site visitors lights outdoors the writer’s home an the prosperous suburb

One guardian mentioned: ‘Why cannot they do it within the February breaks? They’ve hours by means of the day when the roads are quiet’

A lady walks her canine previous the highway works
The author had utilized to have the large constructions, estimated to value £250,000, erected as a part of a programme of renovations at her home.
They’re supposed for use by her two youthful kids, who every acquired their very own two-storey home. They’re every nearly 40ft excessive and have secret tunnels and bay home windows.
Rowling’s Harry Potter sequence has bought over 500 million books worldwide, turning her into one among a choose few billionaire authors.
She has confronted a backlash from transgender activists in recent times attributable to her outspoken defence of women-only areas and staunch perception in organic intercourse.
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