You might get them to pay for damage to boundary, but if the tree was there before you moved in, why did you move in, either renting or buying?
I have trouble with a neighbour who takes exception to the fact the 150 year old oak on the boundary drops acorns and bits of twigs and even leaves in his garden. It has a tree preservation order which the solicitor should have pointed out before he bought the place. He can't touch it without permission from the council. His house is about 120 years younger than the tree, it's not as if it suddenly grew there, robbing existing light.
I was lucky there was no 'Preservation order and as there were lots of trees nearby, they said it would not alter the rural aspects...There are lots of tree here and they wereleft and houses built around them... No one can predict the impact of a 150 yr old tree.. Oaks are ratherprecious, mine was a Sycamore and therewas another about 20 feet away.. That is now causing problems to the tenant next door as about a million of those helicoper seeds have rooted in her garden now its a jungle..
No weeds my side Topbird, I'm out at least twice a week pulling weeds out and making sure all my plants stay within their boundary.
I almost fainted the other day, he's got a new girlfriend and must have been desperate to impress her, he came out with a chainsaw and cut down all the overhanging shrubs down to below new fence level so I can actually see sky now Hasn't tackled the weeds but I have them under control at the moment.
Ok so most of the branches fell on my flowerbeds and I had to tidy them up as he won't but that's a small price to pay.
Thats exactly what I put on another post Lou, (i.e MY neighbours and the weeds) why do you buy a place with a big garden, if you dont like gardening! Technically you are allowed to remove branches overhanging your side, from neighbouring property BUT the law says the branches are their property so you must give them back, can imagine wheat would happen if I put brambles,branches etc. "back" into their garden. We are going to have to have a blitz on some huge "firs" doing self-same from next door.
We back on to council owned woodland and I eventually contacted my MP after waiting over a year to get some cutting back done. . . . it was done three days later.
Re the issue with the neighbour with horses etc, there's a bloke across the road from me who leaves his garden like a midden. Every weed goes to seed and I'm in the firing line because of the wind direction
It's the size of a postage stamp. Once a year he gets a petrol strimmer and all the gear on to clear it. Think he just likes wearing it - don't know who he's trying to impress
My point is that his immediate neighbour (next door to him) was speaking to me one day and said she was about to phone the council about the state of it because it affected her. She's elderly and on her own - late hubby was a very keen gardener. These are privately owned houses - not rented. He was out tidying it a few days later so perhaps someone did have a word with him about the effect on her well being or something.
Worth a try perhaps
The best bit is that he had the cheek to put a hanging basket by the front door.....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Weeds, bindweed and brambles in our last house from neghbours, and the owner got out there a couple of times a year with a CHAINSAW, and cut the "grass", I use the term advisedly, because it was mostly dandilions, he did NOT wear any safety gear and was a ex fireman. Here we have fir trees hanging from next door, but high up so its going to be a nightmare to reach to cut them. Suppose it depends on the council.We were lucky on that score, there was a whopping great oak tree in our last front garden, roots damaging the water main which we had to have replaced, and burst thru concrete drive, no TPO, It was also dangerous getting out of our drive, you couldnt see round the tree. I spoke to a chap at our local council, who was extremely rude to me, and said the tree stayed, THEN a very nice chap from the county council came to see me, looked at the tree, WINKED said oh yes was was suffering from a virus, and they would take it down at their expense!!! Then "nasty bloke" wrote to us, sending a map, slapping on a TPO on said tree, I wrote back to him said there was no tree there where it was shown on the map, he did not bother to reply. The folk over the road, who had a council property, had an oak tree a few feet from their property which was doing damage, managed to get it removed after a couple of years of fighting. IF I ever move again, I will check houses near me to make sure the dwellers therein look after their gardens!!!
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You might get them to pay for damage to boundary, but if the tree was there before you moved in, why did you move in, either renting or buying?
I have trouble with a neighbour who takes exception to the fact the 150 year old oak on the boundary drops acorns and bits of twigs and even leaves in his garden. It has a tree preservation order which the solicitor should have pointed out before he bought the place. He can't touch it without permission from the council. His house is about 120 years younger than the tree, it's not as if it suddenly grew there, robbing existing light.
I was lucky there was no 'Preservation order and as there were lots of trees nearby, they said it would not alter the rural aspects...There are lots of tree here and they wereleft and houses built around them... No one can predict the impact of a 150 yr old tree.. Oaks are ratherprecious, mine was a Sycamore and therewas another about 20 feet away.. That is now causing problems to the tenant next door as about a million of those helicoper seeds have rooted in her garden now its a jungle..
No weeds my side Topbird, I'm out at least twice a week pulling weeds out and making sure all my plants stay within their boundary.
I almost fainted the other day, he's got a new girlfriend and must have been desperate to impress her, he came out with a chainsaw and cut down all the overhanging shrubs down to below new fence level so I can actually see sky now
Hasn't tackled the weeds but I have them under control at the moment.
Ok so most of the branches fell on my flowerbeds and I had to tidy them up as he won't but that's a small price to pay.
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Lou -
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Thats exactly what I put on another post Lou, (i.e MY neighbours and the weeds) why do you buy a place with a big garden, if you dont like gardening! Technically you are allowed to remove branches overhanging your side, from neighbouring property BUT the law says the branches are their property so you must give them back, can imagine wheat would happen if I put brambles,branches etc. "back" into their garden. We are going to have to have a blitz on some huge "firs" doing self-same from next door.
I have brambles and roses encroaching on both sides.. I know they are theirbranches but I dispose of them in the green waste bin cos they won't..
We back on to council owned woodland and I eventually contacted my MP after waiting over a year to get some cutting back done. . . . it was done three days later.
Re the issue with the neighbour with horses etc, there's a bloke across the road from me who leaves his garden like a midden. Every weed goes to seed and I'm in the firing line because of the wind direction
It's the size of a postage stamp. Once a year he gets a petrol strimmer and all the gear on to clear it. Think he just likes wearing it - don't know who he's trying to impress
My point is that his immediate neighbour (next door to him) was speaking to me one day and said she was about to phone the council about the state of it because it affected her. She's elderly and on her own - late hubby was a very keen gardener. These are privately owned houses - not rented. He was out tidying it a few days later so perhaps someone did have a word with him about the effect on her well being or something.
Worth a try perhaps
The best bit is that he had the cheek to put a hanging basket by the front door.....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Weeds, bindweed and brambles in our last house from neghbours, and the owner got out there a couple of times a year with a CHAINSAW, and cut the "grass", I use the term advisedly, because it was mostly dandilions, he did NOT wear any safety gear and was a ex fireman. Here we have fir trees hanging from next door, but high up so its going to be a nightmare to reach to cut them. Suppose it depends on the council.We were lucky on that score, there was a whopping great oak tree in our last front garden, roots damaging the water main which we had to have replaced, and burst thru concrete drive, no TPO, It was also dangerous getting out of our drive, you couldnt see round the tree. I spoke to a chap at our local council, who was extremely rude to me, and said the tree stayed, THEN a very nice chap from the county council came to see me, looked at the tree, WINKED said oh yes was was suffering from a virus, and they would take it down at their expense!!! Then "nasty bloke" wrote to us, sending a map, slapping on a TPO on said tree, I wrote back to him said there was no tree there where it was shown on the map, he did not bother to reply. The folk over the road, who had a council property, had an oak tree a few feet from their property which was doing damage, managed to get it removed after a couple of years of fighting. IF I ever move again, I will check houses near me to make sure the dwellers therein look after their gardens!!!