neighbour's new trees

ConfusedofYorkshire

If this isn't the best place to post, please let me know.

My neighbour has just planted a load of new trees near our boundary. 1 is a maple I think, and the rest silver birch.

The maple is the closest about 10 feet max from my house.

I'm very concerned. I know I have no right to light but this will take our evening sunshine from our house and garden. But I'm more concerned about having them so near my house- both because of their roots and the branches once they're fully grown.

Also, there are 8 trees- surely this will strip the land of water?


Can I do anything? Am I right to be concerned?

G_M

Not much you can do unless the trees cause (provable) damage or overhang your boundary.

If the branches overhang, you can cut them (at the boundary). I assume if the roots extend under the boundar, you can do the same - good luck with the digging......)

But as always with neighbour issues, amicable agreement is the best way forward, though ideally discussed before the work is completed. I can't see the neighbours being best pleased if you either demand, or even ask, them to remove the trees.

You could perhaps tactfully suggest, over tea and cakes, that they keep them lopped 'at a reasonable height'.

ConfusedofYorkshire

We've been over for a chat. Seems he had no idea what the trees were or how big they grow.

I think he's willing to move the nearest one but I don't think he has any idea what he's let himself in for. He will lose all his light too and he has less than us to start with. The trees also seem to be too close together.

scaredlady

We have a silver birch in the back garden__its about 30feet high or taller I would guess. Taller than our house. Luckily its a very large garden and no where near our house.

Mojisola

ConfusedofYorkshire wrote: »

Seems he had no idea what the trees were or how big they grow.

I think he's willing to move the nearest one but I don't think he has any idea what he's let himself in for.

Are they labelled? You could look up the information and show him how high they are going to grow.

Who buys eight trees and plants them without knowing whether they are suitable for the position?:(

warehouse

Mojisola wrote: »

Who buys eight trees and plants them without knowing whether they are suitable for the position?:(

Plenty of idiots in this world and multiplying rapidly.

G_M

warehouse wrote: »

Plenty of idiots in this world and multiplying rapidly.

The educated classes tend to limit their proginy to between 1 & 3.

The less or un-educated tend to reproduce with more abandon.

Evolution tells us that this will result in intelligence dying out and stupidity ruling.

martinthebandit

G_M wrote: »

Evolution tells us that this will result in intelligence dying out and stupidity ruling.

Only if you have no, or a much to simplistic, understanding of evolution

CLAPTON

G_M wrote: »

The educated classes tend to limit their proginy to between 1 & 3.

The less or un-educated tend to reproduce with more abandon.

Evolution tells us that this will result in intelligence dying out and stupidity ruling.

obviously you have the facts and figures to support this
maybe post up a reference

bouicca21

A lot depends on precisely which cultivars they are, though even so I'd reckon 10 feet is way too close. Birch and maple both have extensive shallow root systems. Not necessarily a threat to your foundations, but decidedly dodgy if they are near the drains.

RuthnJasper

G_M wrote: »

The educated classes tend to limit their proginy to between 1 & 3.

The less or un-educated tend to reproduce with more abandon.

Evolution tells us that this will result in intelligence dying out and stupidity ruling.

You're forgetting to factor-in the Darwin Awards and largely junk-food-based diets of the great unwashed. Nature always compensates...