154 Cutting or felling etc trees etc that overhang or are a danger to roads or footpaths

154  Cutting or felling etc trees etc that overhang or are a danger to roads or footpaths

(1)     Where a hedge, tree or shrub overhangs a highway or any other road or footpath to which the public has access so as to endanger or obstruct the passage of vehicles or pedestrians, or obstructs or interferes with the view of drivers of vehicles or the light from a public lamp, [or overhangs a highway so as to endanger or obstruct the passage of horse-riders,] a competent authority may, by notice either to the owner of the hedge, tree or shrub or to the occupier of the land on which it is growing, require him within 14 days from

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