Derek Moore, Taunton, says Somerset County Council need to cut hedges

Derek Moore, 67, of Eastwick Road in Taunton, says the untrimmed hedges on the chicanes of his road are dangerous.

Mr Moore, who has lived there for 40 years, is disabled and gets around on crutches, but when he told the Somerset County Council about the work that needed to be done, he said he was met with the response of 'do it yourself'.

"The entrance to my house is now a blind spot, I can't look up the road to see if anything is coming," he said.

"I am on crutches, so when the council said to do it myself, I thought 'what an attitude'."

UNCUT: The hedges and plants on Eastwick Road, Taunton

Mr Moore says he has never seen the situation get so bad in his decades of living on the road.

He said he is concerned that more and more cars and lorries are using the road in recent years.

"More traffic is using this road now more than ever," he said.

"It's used as a cut-through road now.

"If a lorry is coming through the road, and I am trying to leave my driveway, I am unable to see them coming unless I am stood on my driveway, not from my car when I'm trying to pull out.

"If someone is parked in the layby, too, that makes it even worse.

"It's an accident waiting to happen."

The council says the work will be done soon.

A spokesman for Somerset County Council said: “The hedges along Eastwick Road are our responsibility and will be cut as part of our summer programme of works."

The council says more information about environmental maintenance can be found at travelsomerset.co.uk/grass-cutting. Problems can also be reported via this website.