The MP for Faversham and Mid Kent has become involved in a row with her neighbours over trees at her home which drop leaves and block sunlight.
Helen Whately and her husband purchased their £1.35million home near Faversham last year and now local residents are complaining about massive deciduous trees on the property.
When home owners in neighbouring properties in council and private cottages complained to the Whatelys, they were told to pay for tree surgery themselves.
The offending trees: Neighbours of Faversham and Mid Kent MP Helen Whately have complained that trees on her property block sunlight and drop leaves in their own gardens
One nearby homeowner, grandmother Marilyn Kemsley, 67, said that she was told to pay for tree surgery herself by Helen Whately's husband Marucs
One nearby homeowner, grandmother Marilyn Kemsley, 67, said: 'The Whatelys bought the farmhouse about this time last year, and we've had a running battle with them ever since.
'The trees are 50ft to 60ft high. The lady next door to them lives in perpetual twilight. She has to have lights on all day long. It's absolutely dreadful. We don't get any sunlight from about 3pm onwards.
'One lady's back garden is absolutely full of these trees, which have self-seeded. Some are about 20ft now. She's elderly and alone and she can't deal with it herself.'
Mrs Kemsley said that one of the affected neighbours is an 81-year-old who cannot clean up the fallen leaves herself anymore.
When Mrs Kemsley approached the Whatelys about the trees she received text messages from Helen's company director husband Marcus Whately.
Helen and Marcus Whately were approached by MailOnline but declined to comment
Kemsley said: 'The trees are 50ft to 60ft high. The lady next door to them lives in perpetual twilight. She has to have lights on all day long
One message read: 'I have no obligation to cut trees to any height.
'I've had some work done at my cost as a gesture of goodwill, and I'm sorry that gesture has not been appreciated.'
Mr Whately, who is a managing director at Vescor, also said that he was happy to consider further works on the trees if his neighbours paid for them.
Mrs Kemsley, who was unhappy with the response from Mr Whately said: 'I think it's disgusting. We all voted for Mrs Whately to try and help with everything that was going on in the country, and now we feel totally let down.
Marcus Whately told Kemsley via text that he had already done some work on the trees 'as a gesture of goodwill'
'Something silly like this in our own environment, and she can't even help us.
'And then her husband's asking us for money.'
KentOnline reports that the previous owner of the property had agreed to cut the trees so that they were shorter but sold the house to the Whatelys before he could carry out the work.
MailOnline approached Mr and Mrs Whately but they declined to comment.
