On our road anyway .
That is the traditional hedge
There are few left on the frontages of our road .
There were 3 tall and thick ones .
Someone bought one of the houses recently and decided to uproot the hedge .
Now there is only two houses with large hedges left ,together with a few houses with smaller hedges .
We haven't got a hedge in the front garden - however we have very long rear garden with a hedge on one side .
6 foot hedge at the front and between us and the neighbours from hell.
Thinking about razor wire along the top too, just to be sure.
Machine gun tower too.
I'm lucky enough to live in the countryside full of hedges, mostly hawthorn and blackthorn around here. Mine has an apple tree halfway along it and a random self seeded plum cherry type tree. We stopped cutting it years ago so its more of a series of trees now than a hedge but full of small birds.
we have hedges by our council blocks, though not sure whether bird life can survive in them, we have two massive trees outside between our two blocks of flats and that it is wildlife sanctuary of sorts.