Earswick Parish Council is planning to dig up the hedge in the village, claiming the footpath next to it needs to be widened for safety reasons.
But one resident said she was baffled by the plan - and now City of York Council has asked for the proposal to be paused in order to find resolution.
Gill Bradley’s house in Strensall Road, Earswick, has a boundary next to the hawthorn hedge. She received a hand-posted letter from Earswick Parish Council dated July 22 which outlined its intentions following several complaints.
The letter claimed the narrowness of the path next to the hedge "has resulted in at least one person actually being hit by a wing mirror of a passing vehicle, together with several near misses where cars have travelled too close to pedestrians on the footpath".
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