Ex-Rangers star John Greig has claimed victory after a row erupted with neighbours about trees that separate their gardens.
Greig, 73, was at loggerheads with Dianne Paton, Anne Gavin and William Bryson over conifer trees on their property that he insisted caused "significant loss" of light at his home.
The Ibrox star claimed the issue has ruined his enjoyment of his back garden in Lenzie, East Dunbartonshire, and called in council planning bosses.
He teamed up with two immediate neighbours, Norman MacDonald and Watson Brown, to appeal under High Hedge laws in a bid to have the trees lopped.
The trio claimed they only took the action after various attempts at agreeing a compromise failed.
Greig and Brown succeeded in having an order granted but MacDonald's application was rejected.
Paton had appealed to the Scottish Government in a bid to stop the trees being cut but, following a site inspection last month, government reporter
John Martin backed Greig and ordered the trees be cut.
He ruled they should now be reduced to 3.5 metres and ordered work be completed by the end of March.
He said: "I have taken account of the earlier negotiations that have taken place between the neighbours and the reduction in height to five metres that the hedge owners carried out last April.
"But with the relatively close proximity with the houses to the common boundary, over which I appreciate the hedge owners had no control, I feel that a further reduction in height would be in order in the interest of good neighbourliness."
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