Telegraph – When Diary recently wrote about Crispin Odey, the fund management tycoon, he was hedging his bets as his planning application to replace a stretch of historic hedgerow at his Gloucestershire manor with “aesthetic” iron railings hung in the balance.
Sadly, this is one hedge that hasn’t gone in the short-selling millionaire’s favour. The council yesterday refused Mr Odey’s application for his Forest of Dean country retreat on the grounds that: “A new manmade boundary treatment would introduce a stark and manmade feature in place of a traditional and natural hedgerow.”
