Can anyone tell what tree is that?

Davesnave

As it's a bird cherry, and not that ornamental, I'd have it down and put something nicer in its place, especially if building control think it might get too big and suck the very lifeblood from your foundations!

meggsy

Wild cherry I reckon

oldtractor

Looks like a cherry to me. Lovely autumn colour. I like it, I'd leave it in.

fdavid_2

Gean (Prunus avium) in my opinion. Aka Wild Cherry

Valli

Wild cherry

HTH

LittleVermin

Unless it's an exotic, it looks like common or garden cherry. You might want to leave it in (if you can) to see if you like the flowers (probably lots of white ones unless it's an ornamental). In a good summer it should bear lots of bunches of fruit - which you'll need to net to stop the birds having them before they are ripe. Good autumn colour, as oldtractor says. Birds like them for nests - especially if you let ivy (or clematis/honeysuckle/rose/etc) go up them. Prune in summer (yes, unusual, I know, but minimises infection through the cuts).

If you leave it until next Spring you can tell a bit more about it. If it has white flowers you might want to see exactly what the fruit are like: it could be a very good fruiting variety. If it has pinkish double/semi-double flowers it's an ornamental - and useless for fruit.

Despite other suggestions, it certainly isn't hornbeam, alder, beech, elder or even monkey puzzle!
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powershopper

native cherry, smashing autumn colour, pretty white blossom, the birds love the fruit, but by the looks of it waaaaay too near the fence! Get rid before you and your neighbours start fighting. They will pop up for years after the tree is gone!!!

powershopper

....the tree seedlings, not the neighbours.

LittleVermin

powershopper wrote: »

....the tree seedlings, not the neighbours.

Nice!

But it's easy to pull up the seedlings when small.

Maybe the neighbours like the tree? Of course it shouldn't be so close to the fence - but the fence is hardly a thing of value, or beauty! I see someone has already pruned back a branch on the neighbour's side.

And I don't think anyone can be sure exactly which cherry it is just from two pics taken when it is not flowering or fruiting. ... so that's why I wrote "common or garden cherry". It might be a Morello (great for jam, and boozy cherries), a Governor Wood (delicious, sweet cherries), ....