Thanks very much for this information - I had no idea that you had to give the trimmings back to the owner - I can kind of understand the rationale, but in practical terms not so much! I've also recently picked some pears overhanging my garden - in fairness my neighbours had just moved out!
You don't have to "give" them back, you have to "offer" them back. Big difference.
If this is true, and i expect it is, legally, the law is an ass. Imagine cutting back a neighbours precious tree when it over hangs and then going round with the branches and ringing the bell! I think this constitutes "Inciting a riot" , or at least disturibing hte peace. Common sense is lacking in the law as interpreted here. Lop it off, keep it if you must, then offer back when they ring the bell.
Whether I offer or give them back my neighbour wouldn't care - I never see this person and she's left her yard a total mess after moving in a year and a half a go. But that's another story! Thanks Jul1i3, just after I cut them back, I saw Monty Don deadbead his buddleia, which I thought was funny. I have cut this buddleia before and it does seem to come back - I just wanted to make sure.
I'd take an absent neighbour and their unattended garden gladly! How lucky you are.
Regarding painting, I understand the logic on both sides here. Some people think painting a fence is a good thing. Some don't. It also depends upon what it is painted with. An unpainted fence at my uncles, has stood perfectly fine for about 30 years, and is still strong and stable.
The buddleia, I cut mine back hard very late this year, thinking we might get a mild October, if frosts had struck early, I'd have been worried. But it looks to have thrown out enough growth to get by. I also cut two back hard in June and both bounced back and flowered beautifully.
Expecting the council to clean out your gutters, is utterly fatuous. I have a relative who moans the same about the park trees that border her property. Part of the attraction of her property of course is that it borders the park, which has trees. Talk like this leads to councils just saying to heck with it, and felling the lot, to reduce maintenance costs, similar to the travesty up in Sheffield. Social care or gutter clearance? Priorities. A hundred or so a month can only go so far!
I'd take an absent neighbour and their unattended garden gladly! How lucky you are.
Sounds nice I know, but it is actually a pain as she has virtually destroyed the lovely established garden through neglect, has left bins on her patio for months and months - one being used to block her dog from entering our garden so it's right next to our patio. (haven't seen the dog for a year). The problem is that you cannot get ahold of this person to ask what they plan to do with their enormous cypress blocking all sun from my garden. We have trimmed it back on our side only to free up space but there is only so much that we can do.
There were so many twigs and dead branches that I thought over the summer that it was a fire hazard.
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Common sense is lacking in the law as interpreted here. Lop it off, keep it if you must, then offer back when they ring the bell.
Thanks Jul1i3, just after I cut them back, I saw Monty Don deadbead his buddleia, which I thought was funny. I have cut this buddleia before and it does seem to come back - I just wanted to make sure.
Regarding painting, I understand the logic on both sides here. Some people think painting a fence is a good thing. Some don't. It also depends upon what it is painted with. An unpainted fence at my uncles, has stood perfectly fine for about 30 years, and is still strong and stable.
The buddleia, I cut mine back hard very late this year, thinking we might get a mild October, if frosts had struck early, I'd have been worried. But it looks to have thrown out enough growth to get by. I also cut two back hard in June and both bounced back and flowered beautifully.
Expecting the council to clean out your gutters, is utterly fatuous. I have a relative who moans the same about the park trees that border her property. Part of the attraction of her property of course is that it borders the park, which has trees. Talk like this leads to councils just saying to heck with it, and felling the lot, to reduce maintenance costs, similar to the travesty up in Sheffield. Social care or gutter clearance? Priorities. A hundred or so a month can only go so far!
There were so many twigs and dead branches that I thought over the summer that it was a fire hazard.