A LISS resident's complaint about hedge cutting caused a major row at Monday's Liss Parish Council meeting. Margaret Hewitt raised concern over hedges at The Newman Collard Tennis Club being trimmed by a community service work team rather than hedges at Pigs Lane. Mrs Hewitt said: "After the July parish council meeting I asked if Pigs Lane could be cleared. The clerk, Dick Bowery, contacted the county council and called me back to say that English Landscape were doing this within the next two weeks. But nothing happened. As there were potential problems with a bank in the lane, I asked Councillor Crofton and Councillor Linsley to inspect the lane.' She continued: "I then telephoned the parish council chairman, Nigel Paren, who told me that a probation services team, who were doing work for the parish, would be clearing the lane and make it safe. I was therefore surprised to learn at the recent grounds committee meeting that the probation service team, a state organisation, working on behalf of the parish, were being used to subsidise to the probable tune of hundreds of pounds a private tennis club by cutting their hedges, when there is parish work still outstanding. In these circumstances the cutting of a private hedge, I believe to be an abuse of a public service." Mrs Hewitt told The Herald that she "had no personal axe to grind with The Newman Collard Tennis Club," but felt that priorities were misplaced. Parish clerk Dick Bowery said the clearing of Pigs Lane was the responsibility of the county council. And Col. Bill Briggs, secretary of The Newman Collard Trust, replied: "It is insidious that any aspersions should be cast against the tennis club. It forms part of the recreation ground which is open to everybody." Howard Linsley urged the council to investigate if the community services team had been inappropriately used, since it had been strictly agreed that the maintenance of the tennis club was not the responsibility of the parish council. Mrs Hewitt agreed that she would write to Mr Paren.