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

PollySouthend

---lee--- wrote: »

An Enlgishman's home is his castle and all that!

The whole point of buying a house is so that you can make it your own - within reason. What this man has done is lawful and within his own home. For all we know the poor old bloke might have planted the trees because he's sick of being overlooked - who knows! It's not a nice situation when people try to force or bully you into doing things that you don't want to do in your own home. Tread carefully, you could cause a great deal of resentment, especially now that you have the council sending him letters!

My point is, if you want to control the land, you need to buy it - that's how life works.

I would not dream of asking any of my neighbours to cut back or cut down their trees. Only a couple of weeks ago, one of my neighbours was apologising for a few of his trees where they have overgrown over my path and are touching my garage. I told him not to worry about it and I would simply cut them back to the fence when I had time.

I'm not forcing of bulling him, I asked him nicely as it is spoiling my view and he was very rude and aggressive back.

Then again as people here have shown most people are selfish and don't give a toss about what their actions have on other people.

Btw where was that 300k house with all the land? Mine cost more or less that and its just a two bed!

PollySouthend

DaftyDuck wrote: »

Idiophreak - there is a major difference between all your examples, and what is happening here. What he is doing is (in the main) contained entirely within his property, without incursion into anyone else's space. The view was over his garden; he may (hypothetically) wish to increase privacy in his garden via the trees, improve his view by blocking out the OP's house, or whatever. He may not want the OP peering into his private space, as it sounds like his house is lower.

Your examples would hold true if you visited their house, and stepped in their own dog's po0, sat beside them at their pool, and had to inhale their smoke, or went to their home cinema, and had to put up with them making a call.

Lol there is already a huge hedge between our gardens, its impossible to even see his roof from my house. This tree gives no more privacy .

PollySouthend

Just measured the hedge, its 2.8m so that's my negotiations, can either prune back the tall tree to give me my view back or can force him to lower the hedge to legal specifications that will reduce his privacy.

nickj_2

Idiophreak wrote: »

Just had a great thought. Get the oldest, rustiest trampoline you can find and bounce to "enjoy the view" at all hours of the day and night. The shouts of "wheeeeeee!" and the incessant creaking will drive him potty eventually

i would have thought having an annoying nieghbour telling him what to do with his garden would be driving him round the bend

PollySouthend

nickj wrote: »

i would have thought having an annoying nieghbour telling him what to do with his garden would be driving him round the bend

Yes because asking if someone could trim a huge tree is telling someone what to do..

lottieholder

PollySouthend wrote: »

Just measured the hedge, its 2.8m so that's my negotiations, can either prune back the tall tree to give me my view back or can force him to lower the hedge to legal specifications that will reduce his privacy.

What legal specifications?

nickj_2

PollySouthend wrote: »

Just measured the hedge, its 2.8m so that's my negotiations, can either prune back the tall tree to give me my view back or can force him to lower the hedge to legal specifications that will reduce his privacy.

so if he trims his hedge back to the legal height it still won't give you your view back , and btw it reduce your privacy too

you do not have any negotiation at all with respect to your view, you are legally allowed to trim any branches overhanging your land , but that is all, unless it's causing subsidence to your house

PollySouthend

nickj wrote: »

so if he trims his hedge back to the legal height it still won't give you your view back , and btw it reduce your privacy too

you do not have any negotiation at all with respect to your view, you are legally allowed to trim any branches overhanging your land , but that is all, unless it's causing subsidence to your house

Yes it will give me some of my view back. Your arrogance is strange, do you know my house better than me? Lol

DaftyDuck

You'll have to put forward some serious dosh to "force him to lower the hedge"... normally over four hundred quid for the council to adjudicate, with no refund whether you win or lose. Plus, if you are on a slope, as I suspect, the standard height restrictions don't apply.

Your original gripe was with the tree, now it's the hedge. You could always ask him to knock his house down next. That'd go down well too.

Idiophreak

DaftyDuck wrote: »

Your examples would hold true if you visited their house, and stepped in their own dog's po0, sat beside them at their pool, and had to inhale their smoke, or went to their home cinema, and had to put up with them making a call.

...but the OP isn't going round his house to be bothered by the tree, are they? They're being bothered in their own house by the neighbours tree.

Maybe a better comparison for you would be if the neighbour had a dog and chucked all of the turds over the fence.

He's not trying to create a mess in the OPs garden, he's just getting on with cleaning his own.

Or how about if the neighbour had a rave.

He's not trying to keep OP up, just getting on with his rave.

You don't need to visit a selfish person's house to be impacted by their attitude.