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Like other repairs and maintenance issues, both Hexagon and tenants are responsible for different things.  Hexagon is responsible for repairing:
- Access paths and steps to your front and back door but not patios or garden paths.
- Maintaining our dividing fences.
- Fences bordering Hexagon land & owned by Hexagon.
- Gardening – where we have agreed this with you and there is a service charge

It is down to you to make sure that you look after your own garden by:
- Keeping it tidy and free of rubbish.
- Making sure shrubs, hedges and trees do not become a nuisance to neighbours.
- Maintaining garden paths and patios.
- If you keep a dog, making sure that when it is in the garden, it does not become a nuisance to neighbours.
- You are also responsible for dealing with ordinary ants, bugs and fleas, plus bees (the local authority holds a list of bee-keepers who may help_ and wasp nests (unless they are in a shared area). 

 We may be able to help you with some of these problems if you are elderly or disabled.

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