What would you do - tree

couponqueen123

Or if you wanted to find 6ft trees(if you can) and have them planted there in replacement and send letter around and tell them you have cctv watching the trees and they /anyone caught tampering /removing will be prosecuted

Yorkie1

I would certainly report it to the police because at the very least they will get a visit from the officer which hopefully should put the wind up them and show you're not a pushover.

As you do not know who did it, there is no neighbour dispute to declare.

I would also consider putting back some trees in the same place if you liked them there in the first place.

NB You would be reporting criminal damage. Trespass is not a criminal offence.

Mojisola

couponqueen123 wrote: »

also you are well with in your rights to throw the foliage in there garden (i wouldnt #)

No, you're not. If you cut branches from a neighbour's plant that has crossed the boundary into your garden, you have to ask the neighbours if they want the prunings back. If they don't, you have to dispose of them.

In this case, the prunings are from the OP's garden and there is no proof who cut them down - however obvious it must look.

silvercar

I would:

a) assume it was a neighbour fed up of the previous occupant not keeping the trees pruned and taking unilateral action
b) be pleased that they had saved me time and money
c) go round and thank them!

pimento

I'd have to let them know I knew it was them. I'd probably wait until they were in their garden and then tell them that had they asked you, you would have happily trimmed/felled the trees and that you think they had a bluddy cheek doing it themselves.

Depending on how they replied, I might then plant a row of very fast growing leylandii type trees. Just because I could.

SuzieSue

I can understand how you feel and your neighbours shouldn't have done what they did, however, you really haven't lost anything. I feel sorry for your neighbours if their garden was being shaded by the trees for years and your vendors hadn't done anything about it.

Ivana_Tinkle

Cheeky blighters! Whether or not you actually report them to the police I'd certainly be going round and telling the neighbour you suspect that your garden's being vandalised and the police are looking into it. Might at least give them a couple of sleepless nights!

SuzieSue

Ivana_Tinkle wrote: »

Cheeky blighters! Whether or not you actually report them to the police I'd certainly be going round and telling the neighbour you suspect that your garden's being vandalised and the police are looking into it. Might at least give them a couple of sleepless nights!

Agreed, I think that is the way to deal with it although I wouldn't actually go to the police. It should stop them doing anything else although I don't think they would anyway. I think all they wanted was their garden not to be in the shade.

Catherine_Johnson_2

couponqueen123 wrote: »

Get the police and also you are well with in your rights to throw the foliage in there garden (i wouldnt #) but i wuld ring police and sue for damges

are tress protected? Why have they done this i wuld want to know
culd have been an on going dispute with last owners i wuldnt want to get caught up in

Sue who exactly? The OP doesn't know who did the damage.

Davesnave

SuzieSue wrote: »

I can understand how you feel and your neighbours shouldn't have done what they did, however, you really haven't lost anything.

This answer is so wrong, it beggars belief.

The OP has lost the feeling of security, besides the criminal damage done to their property.

Unfortunately, there is no proof nor any likelihood of obtaining any, so the OP must tread carefully. I would be watching the neighbour on that boundary like a hawk and assessing whether something like enhanced security there would be worthwhile. Fencing that's difficult to climb over is expensive, so I'd be looking at very prickly bushes as an option. Rubus cockburnianus comes to mind....among others. Easy to propagate too.

Of course there's the entirely separate matter of casting shade, and it's more than likely this was the issue behind the assumed actions of the neighbour. However, the way they went about solving the problem was just wrong. Have sympathy for them if you like, but don't suggest that the OP has not lost anything through their actions.