Large tree in neighbours garden blocks light to lounge

G42

andrew-b wrote: »

no i don't put trees before human beings so i'm not sure where you got that from!

"does anyone else get annoyed when people want to chop down perfectly healthy trees that are doing no one any real harm?"

Apart from blocking their light that is. Mind you, no light doesn't bother you, does it.


"If they didn't like the tree why move there in the first place?!"

Trees tend to grow as you know and very often the wrong species is planted for the location.


"I wouldn't remove it just because you didn't like it though!"

It's not a case of disliking it we're talking about. It's a case of depriving someone of light caused by the wrong type of tree being planted in the wrong place.


"so is it any wonder that people go around chopping trees down for no reason"

I think severe lack of light is quite a good reason.


"even if i were tempted to batter you round the head with the logs after!"

And I thought you were a quiet nature lover!


"My attitude wouldn't change if my light were blocked by a tree either so your also wrong there"

I wouldn't have expected an answer other than that.

rustybucket

andrew-b wrote: »

Is it just me or does anyone else get annoyed when people want to chop down perfectly healthy trees that are doing no one any real harm?

In my opinion more should be done to protect healthy trees and i'd like to see permission required to remove every tree (if government are serious about lowering carbon dioxide levels then preserving our trees that consume carbon dioxide in photosynthesis is surely something that would help?). Just because a tree doesn't have a preservation order on it doesn't make it ok to chop it down!

Andy

For a start it is your opinion, and I class myself a big nature lover, love walking in the woods, watching wildlife. We are lucky that we live in a country with a very high density of trees.

I also think that I can totally understand where the OP is coming from here, letting natural light into your living room is good for your well being, and I would hate to live in a dark room al year long. It would make me very very depressed. I'm bad enough in the winter.

When we rented we turned down a big place due to a large tree as it let no light in the living room, I didn't even notice it my other half did and I'm pleased she did.

Besides it is young trees that actually absorb the most carbon dioxide not the older ones so I suggest you get your facts straight.

To the OP have a word with your neighbours and see what they say. Maybe you could plant a couple of saps in it's place?

Andy you appear to be quite judgmental of others on here, maybe you could put your points across in a less terse tone.

andrew-b

rustybucket wrote: »

Andy you appear to be quite judgmental of others on here, maybe you could put your points across in a less terse tone.

Yes i'm judgemental i can't disagree! I always seem to be getting into battles here and get all too easily wound up! Maybe i need another outlet for my frustrations with life rather than beating people around the head with virtual logs on here! That bathroom wall needs attacking still! Perhaps my location of " in the doghouse" is more appropriate than i had in mind when i wrote it!

Anyways I don't mean to cause offence to the OP or anyone else here so apologies to anyone who i have caused offence to including G42! :beer:

I'll go fetch my coat! :silenced:

thebaldwindowfitter

quoted a job last week in a communal block of flats which the tenants now have to pay for themselves because a tree fell in the winds from another block of flats demolishing 2 garages and a wall .insurance said that it was an act of god on both sides so the monies came from the maintenace fund

Gangstabird

andrew-b wrote: »

Is it just me or does anyone else get annoyed when people want to chop down perfectly healthy trees that are doing no one any real harm? It often happens just after people move in i've noticed. If they didn't like the tree why move there in the first place?! As already pointed out you don't have a right to light. If the roots are causing damage to your property or it's dead and at risk of falling that's a somewhat different story (i've been trying since december 2007 to get our council to remove a dead tree at risk of falling and causing damage outside our house and have finally got a date for them to fell it in two weeks time- i requested they plant a new one but i'll be surprised if they do).

I bet the tree was there long before you moved there and i bet it would be there for many years longer if it weren't at threat from you trying to get it the chop!

You will more than likely upset neighbours. If someone came knocking on my door asking i chop down a healthy tree in my garden and it wasn't overhanging the boundary i would tell them where to go in no uncertain terms! But then again your neighbours might all want to remove it anyway.

That the gardens are communal makes things much more complicated. Who is responsible for the upkeep of the gardens (even if it isn't being looked after well)? Is this council rented or housing association property or privately rented or are you a leaseholder of your flat?

In my opinion more should be done to protect healthy trees and i'd like to see permission required to remove every tree (if government are serious about lowering carbon dioxide levels then preserving our trees that consume carbon dioxide in photosynthesis is surely something that would help?). Just because a tree doesn't have a preservation order on it doesn't make it ok to chop it down!

Andy

We loved the Ash tree which grew next door until it started making cracks in our house..................I mean big cracks

Primrose

I think most of us like trees. The problem is that many of the people who plant them in gardens don't have the vision to imagine what they will be like in 20 or 50 years time. If a dog is for life, a tree is often for several successive lives, and now we all live cheek by jowl in a tightly packed island, we have a moral obligation to consider the needs and feelings of our neighbours as well as our own. Overpowering and out-of-control trees cause just as much distress to many people as loud music and other anti-social behaviour. And many people who move into a house with a "small" tree have a right to be distressed when they've lived in the same house for 20 years and find it has grown into an overwhelming monster which cuts out all their light and sunshine and they have an inconsiderate neighbour who doesn't care a damn. Perhaps we need some new legislation that decrees that no tree should be allowed to grow beyond a certain height if it is a specific distance from a neighbouring house, unless it is with the written agreement of the affected householders concerned. This might stir up a few feathers but it might also remove the cause of a lot of "inconsiderate neighbour" problems.

sad_dog_lady

more trees please, less complaints, more carbon dioxide storage please, less globl warming, just plant the right ones in the right place.

Alias_Omega

I wish i had a tree, someone cut it down before we moved it, found it in the garden laying down. Suspect is was a tree hater..

Steel_2

Alias_Omega wrote: »

I wish i had a tree, someone cut it down before we moved it, found it in the garden laying down. Suspect is was a tree hater..

Someone did that to us to. When we viewed and offered on our current property there was an Bramley apple tree and hubby was very excited about it. Apple crumble alert! When we moved in three months later there was just a stump.

They said they thought its leaves looked a bit funny, like it was diseased maybe, so they chopped it down. I think they did it on purpose just to be annoying because we wouldn't stump up an extra £200 for some hideous damaged Victorian replica fireplace they wanted to sell to us.

I've manage to 'grow' the stump and train the shoots though, so three years later it now it has loads of apples!!

oilit

I agree that some trees are planted in the wrong place, but also that nobody has a right to light.

Pruning may be the compromise here - and I woudl only talk with the landlord - its up to him/her to discuss it with his or her tenants (they are powerless in this situation as they have no authority of fixtures and fittings - and probably have a clause in their contract that states no cutting down or removal of plants bushes and other items in the garden except for the purposes of general maintenance.