Claims a high hedge was blocking light from a garden have been dismissed on appeal after it was ruled it would have to be nine metres high to have a detrimental impact.
Scottish Ministers were asked to intervene after East Lothian Council refused to step into the row between neighbours over the hedge in Aberlady.
Applicant Alan Armitage, who lives in Whinny View, Aberlady, asked the council to serve a High Hedge order on the owners of a neighbouring house after he said writing to them failed to bring any action.