Neighbours tree & my car !x! a legal question

Gangstabird

Molerat, I am shocked at you

Cough, add jeyes fluid into holes made by nails;) , Cough

goldspanners

Gangstabird wrote: »

Molerat, I am shocked at you

Cough, add jeyes fluid into holes made by nails;) , Cough

the tree hugger will be here in a minute!:D

steveo3002

Gangstabird wrote: »

Molerat, I am shocked at you

Cough, add jeyes fluid into holes made by nails;) , Cough

still take years to kill it wouldnt it?

if you knew when theyre out you could pretend you own the house and arrange for it to be cut down and taken away lol

LandyAndy

Get it cut down. Tell the LL 'a big boy did it and ran away'. What's he going to do?

vaio

Just to clarify….is this a tree on neighbours property which overhangs your property and drips sap on to your car whilst it is parked on your property?

pianeet

molerat wrote: »

cough .... copper nails ...... cough :eek:

i reckon copper nails are an old wives tale, i have a lime tree at the front of my house with more copper nails in it than b and q ,when my car caught fire on the drive a few years a go and set fire to the tree i thought it would have to be chopped down,but it just produced even more sap,

Debt_Free_Chick

Is your car parked on the Highway (road). If so, there is absolutey no liability on anyone - the "legal" argument will be not to park there. In other words, you can take reasonable steps to avoid the damage and you would be expected to do so.

If the car is on your drive, I still think there's no liability. The neighbour or his LL is not causing the damage and there's nothing they can do to prevent the tree doing it's natural stuff. Of course, one solution would be to chop the tree down - but I don't think that would be viewed as a reasonable solution. If it were, then every tree in every urban area would be chopped down, to prevent landowners being "responsible" for damage to neighbours' property.

Sorry - but I can't see anyone having any liability for this. Except, of course, the tree

Belnahua

Wasn't it stormy last night? Must've come down in the storms?

Debt_Free_Chick

Belnahua wrote: »

Wasn't it stormy last night? Must've come down in the storms?

Also affected by some obscure disease which caused it and the other tree in the background to think it was winter - no leaves!

OMG - that disease has spread to the hedge too :rotfl:

Belnahua

Debt_Free_Chick wrote: »

no leaves!
:rotfl:

Told you it was windy, it even blew the leaves off!:)

BTW, I actually got the car out with out a scratch! Lucky or what?!?