neighbours tree is starting to block the view of the valley from my house

atrixblue.-MFR-.

DaftyDuck wrote: »

Um... I'm just off to take a photograph and upload it....

Er... getting there... had to change cameras for one with a wider angle....

Here we go...



You can see my hedge, that's against my wall. Neatly trimmed, not overhanging.

I'll get another one to show the tree from the ground: that's from the second floor... Parallax makes it look small from there..

No, it's currently raining. But, standing in my second floor window, I'm halfway up the tree. I'm the tallest house around, and it's a good ten metres taller than my house. It dwarfs all the neighbouring houses. I'd love it to go. But, the owner loves it. Loves the pigeons than nest in it.

You can see nothing really grows within 25 feet of that corner of my garden. Except seedling sycamores, by the million. The roots are huge, and the soil therefore dry. It shades that corner as well.

Would I like it gone? Of course... it blocks part of my view, and I'm right by the seaside! However, it's not mine to destroy, and the owner wants it there. His tree, his property. I have no right to the view, and there's nothing I can do about it. "Massive" loss of money? Unlikely, and I do have a little experience of house prices. Maybe a thousand quid or so, absolute maximum, probably not a jot of a difference in fact.

Edit: OK, I've got one from the ground, but my camera hasn't got a wide-enough setting :rotfl::rotfl:



So, the top bit you can see in that photo, that's the bulge just under halfway up the other photo. That's a white two-storey house in the background, so it towers well over twice - probably three times - as high as that. The top of the Cyprus tree in the top photo is lower then the top of the bottom photo!


Luckily for me - that's not my greenhouse underneath it! Yep, look closely under the tree in the 1st photo, there's a greenhouse....

Idiophreak: Quite right; I have never experienced it! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:...

Just off to get some diesel to pour on the roots, then it's off to tip acid in the other neighbour's pool, as they don't half make a screaming racket, and I don't like that either!

Edit: I'll leave these pictures up for the laughs for a while, then delete them, as they do rather detract from the OP's thread. I just thought Idiotphreak might like to see that I do, actually, have some experience of a massive tool ... er tree... getting in the way!

he loves that because it nests pigeons, flying diseased rats that carps everywhere, OK your problem solved if that's the reason, give me 24 pack of worthy ill fetch the .22 BSA ULTRA.

Spank

It's a tree not a wind turbine, since when have trees been a bad thing?


OK it's blocking the view of the valley, but what's in this mystical valley? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically...?


Seriously valleys are usually trees and farm land anyway, your just getting a but close up

atrixblue.-MFR-.

To the OP, whilst I dislike tree's in a residential garden, there not allot you could do if its not breaking any rules, if the routs get in your garden dig them up and hand them back to him.


reminds of the conifer tree's a bloke planted on the side of his house, the grew so big they almost boubled the size of his 2 story house and they got so big they blocked off his side access lane to his garage, then the winds came a few years ago and blew one down, pulling the routs up with them, which so happened to underpin his house foundation so when the rout came up it left his gable end wall in a unstable state, he ended up paying allot of cash to remove the rest and have the rout valleys in the floor under the foundations filled up.


I don't dislike tree's some are very nice when in bloom, if I had a tree in my garden, and it took away some pleasures of a neighbor to see the sea or view a lovely valley then I'd have no issue with taking it down if it provides a shade in the summer to sit down for me then I'd simply buy a gazebo instead.

Idiophreak

Spank wrote: »

It's a tree not a wind turbine, since when have trees been a bad thing?


OK it's blocking the view of the valley, but what's in this mystical valley? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically...?


Seriously valleys are usually trees and farm land anyway, your just getting a but close up

So if you bought a penthouse apartment in London with a view of the skyline and then someone built a brick wall a foot in front of your window, you'd have no issues, right?

Same view, just close up.

Davesnave

Idiophreak wrote: »

So if you bought a penthouse apartment in London with a view of the skyline and then someone built a brick wall a foot in front of your window.

You would have a right to light issue with the planning dept.......

Mind you, that would be a view. What we seem to be discussing here is something less expansive that may be hidden by a couple of trees under 20' tall. More of a peek than a view, but in the real world, it's what most people have.

Most people also accept that they can lose their glimpses because of things like trees growing, others adding extensions and similar human activity. It's what happens in urban and semi- urban environments.

Idiophreak

Davesnave wrote: »

Mind you, that would be a view. What we seem to be discussing here is something less expansive that may be hidden by a couple of trees under 20' tall. More of a peek than a view, but in the real world, it's what most people have.

You could have the best view in the world, complete with the majestic wildebeests etc al...but if someone sticks a 16 ft tree close enough in front of you, you lose that view completely. We are, afterall, less than half that tall ourselves.

Very few houses offer so much as a glimpse of anything remarkable, anyway, but OP describes their view as the "best thing about the house", so I'd imagine it was more than a distant peek...

lstar337

Davesnave wrote: »

Mind you, that would be a view.

I would rather look at a green valley, than a London skyline!

lostinrates

lstar337 wrote: »

I would rather look at a green valley, than a London skyline!

Maybe likewise, op's neighbour would rather look at something green than op's home?

Idiophreak

lostinrates wrote: »

Maybe likewise, op's neighbour would rather look at something green than op's home?

Then he could turn his head and look at the lovely view of the valley...

cajef

Idiophreak wrote: »

Then he could turn his head and look at the lovely view of the valley...

Not if they are in their lounge and by turning their head round they are looking at a wall.:p