Neighbours leaves

Fire_Fox

Oli.s wrote: »

Where do you live? In West Yorks we had three bins and a box thrust upon us irrespective of wanting them or not, we have a garden waste bin, general waste bin and a paper bin, all of which are large wheelie bins, and then a plastic box for glass and plastics, they are collected every two weeks but at no extra cost. With all the space they take up in the garden you could just leave them open, they would catch most of the leaves and we harldy use anything other than the general waste bin.

Lucky you, I live in West Yorkshire and we don't have any doorstep recycling whatsoever!

BritRael

I have the same problem. The worst bit is the leaves also fall onto my roof which continually block the gutters and cause rain to overflow all over the place

jamesingram

I may be wrong , but I was under the impression you are perfectly entitled to remove any branches that over hang from neighbours and place them back in your neighbours garden , i guess the same applies for leaves , though i can see this probably wouldn't go down to well and create undesired tention

I take my leaves to my allotment and mulch them. Do you know anyone with an allotment ?

grahamc2003

I doubt very much your neighbour has any respnsibility for the leaves on his tree once they've dropped. I doubt they are 'his' leaves at all (i.e. he couldn't sue you if you burnt them, which he could if they actually were his at that point). Imv, it's best not to fall out, or even think badly of, a neighbour for something he has no obligations over, however annoying it must appear.

We usually just leave the leaves alone - they fall on the lawn and usually dry and blow away, or else rot and feed the lawn a bit. I mowed last week because th grass was getting long, and that of course not only got rid of the leaves, but also mashed them up ready for the compost bin. For leaves on concrete, they usually dry and blow into a pile somewhere - a bit of a drag clearing them up, but it doesn't take long. Surely your garden can't be that small that a compost bin wouldn't fit? And if it is that small, then there can't be that many leaves which fall on it can there? Even a big volume of freshly fallen leaves compost down to perhaps 1/20th of the volume.

nearlyrich

If something blows into you garden it's your problem to clear up at least it's not sweet wrappers and coke cans thrown by school kids like one of my friends has to put up with. I think it's more a case of wishing for the good old days and missing a good neighbour here.

esuhl

Wow. There are a couple of large trees in a garden next to ours. Every year their leaves drop into at least five neighbouring gardens, covering them.

I can just imagine the response if we all sent him an invoice for leaf clearance!

I think your neighbour was exceptionally generous in helping you tidy your own garden each year...

System

jamesingram wrote: »

I may be wrong , but I was under the impression you are perfectly entitled to remove any branches that over hang from neighbours and place them back in your neighbours garden , i guess the same applies for leaves , though i can see this probably wouldn't go down to well and create undesired tention

I take my leaves to my allotment and mulch them. Do you know anyone with an allotment ?

You can remove branches that overhang and OFFER them back but the neighbour does not have to accept them, leaving you to dispose of them.

Leaves are natural product and you have no right to insist that your neighbour disposes of them. Attempts to dump them back in the neighbours garden may result in being charged with fly tipping.

LutonGirl

Could you bag the leaves and take them to the local council recycling centre/tip?

robrooo

could you start composting the leaves? Leaf mould is a good soil improver.

www gardenorganic org uk / factsheets / making_leafmould.php

JimmyTheWig

!!!!!! wrote: »

You can remove branches that overhang and OFFER them back but the neighbour does not have to accept them, leaving you to dispose of them.

Is that the case? I thought you were allowed to just drop the overhanging branches back over the fence.
But I would never do this as it is un-neighbourly. I would always dispose of myself if the neighbour didn't want them.

But I think fallen leaves would be different.