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  ken stewart August 23, 2016 at 8:28pm

  My guess is honey fungus. Can come from a affected tree nearby
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  Andrew August 27, 2016 at 7:07pm

  Cant get too much from your pics to be honest,but do see these problems with privet on a fairly regular basis,they do seem to suffer from mysterious 'die-back on occasion.2 things I do know they dislike,is beeen over cut,and worse still under cut-i.e,harsh heavy cutting sporadically.Possibly,they have a finite lifespan.Locally,I see a lot of privets planted back in the 50s,giving up lately.Also you have to factor in ivy investation,and harsh cutting regimes too.A classic sign is a privet hedge looking 'yellowish' and flowering heavily instead of growing.
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  Seána Clougher-Hopper October 20, 2016 at 6:48pm

  Hello there.
  I think it could be either....
  Honey fungus... (doomed)
  Random dieback (will grow away next spring or continue to die back but be covered by other branches... feeding the soil around the shrub can help)
  Could it be a blight I wonder (?)
  Or even Spray drift from treating nearby plants or areas (?)
  I would trim the affected area and see if it recovers when the soil is fed and Spring arrives...
  It does look very much like box-blight (I know it's not a Box... but it may be a similar Bacterium)
  Best of luck with the remedy.
  Xx
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  Seána Clougher-Hopper October 20, 2016 at 6:49pm

  Is that Spider mite webbing bottom left corner...?
  I saw something like this when builders swilled out their concrete buckets onto a border...
  Xx
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  Tony @SM October 21, 2016 at 6:04pm

  Could it  be affected by weedkiller?   One of my customers has lost a stretch of privet after         ( she believes),   the neighbour sprayed his border indiscriminately. Fortunately, privet is easy and cheap to replace.