Yes indeed, you can remove any branches that overhang your own garden as long as you return said branches to their owner. Being conifers, they won't regrow from brown wood so you'd have to think about the effects of looking at bare borwn stems and revealed brown growth on remaining branches. If the trees are planyted on the boundary they can be considered as a hedge and thus liable to hedge height rules.
Do check with your mum's local council about their boundary hedge rules and see what can be done. There should be a council service for mediating boundary and neighbourly problems too.
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If any of the branches overhang your mother's property she is within her rights to cut them back to the boundary line (assuming there is no TPO), but no further. She must also return the cut branches to her neighbour.
If they are simply large trees then there is nothing your mother can do unless the trees are causing physical damage to her property or drains.
Not quite the same as your problem, but a few years ago the people living behind us stuck a snotty note through the door demanding that we cut back a tree which was putting their garden in shadow. I took great delight in telling them that the tree was actually growing in their garden. The previous occupants of their property had built a wall about 3' into their garden for some reason and the tree had grown up behind it! Had they bothered to speak to me when I was in the garden it would have been easily sorted. As it is they haven't spoken to me since. Ho hum.
How can you're mother have sea views if she needs to look across other gardens, I would put trees up aswell, he's proberly sick of seeing eye balls at the window everytime he is in the garden.
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Yes indeed, you can remove any branches that overhang your own garden as long as you return said branches to their owner. Being conifers, they won't regrow from brown wood so you'd have to think about the effects of looking at bare borwn stems and revealed brown growth on remaining branches. If the trees are planyted on the boundary they can be considered as a hedge and thus liable to hedge height rules.
Do check with your mum's local council about their boundary hedge rules and see what can be done. There should be a council service for mediating boundary and neighbourly problems too.
If any of the branches overhang your mother's property she is within her rights to cut them back to the boundary line (assuming there is no TPO), but no further. She must also return the cut branches to her neighbour.
If they are simply large trees then there is nothing your mother can do unless the trees are causing physical damage to her property or drains.
Not quite the same as your problem, but a few years ago the people living behind us stuck a snotty note through the door demanding that we cut back a tree which was putting their garden in shadow. I took great delight in telling them that the tree was actually growing in their garden. The previous occupants of their property had built a wall about 3' into their garden for some reason and the tree had grown up behind it! Had they bothered to speak to me when I was in the garden it would have been easily sorted. As it is they haven't spoken to me since. Ho hum.
How can you're mother have sea views if she needs to look across other gardens, I would put trees up aswell, he's proberly sick of seeing eye balls at the window everytime he is in the garden.