Over Hanging Branches

AlexMac

This thread reminds me of an exchange of emails between residents and members of my (private) road's residents' association when a gate at the end of the road fell down through old age. Much discussion ensued about what to do/who would get quotes/who to pay for the re-errection of few 3-meter lengths of 6"x6" timber; a symbolic entrance marker in that it simulated a barrier but didn't actually ever close. With 12-14 people in the email group copying everyone else in their multiple replies, the email traffic increased exponentially.

So I got a bag of readymix, took new fenc-post and a few tools down the road and re-errected it in less time than it would have taken to read the emails!

From the description so far, this ain't a 20 foot standard oak we're talking about but a wild-sown bush - albeit a big one- probably May or Hawthorn. Get gloves, secatuers, and take a bow-saw to it and it'll be in bits in 2 hours then you can take it down the tip

bouicca21

Well we are trying to be helpful - We are trying to understand what you mean by divider.

GwylimT

You say the divider is a strip of land, you then say it is a concrete structure, it cannot be both so which one is it? If you are unable to describe it find a picture of somethinf similar on google.

bouicca21

Alexmac - I had my money on a self sown ash.

truthman007

bouicca21 wrote: »

Well we are trying to be helpful - We are trying to understand what you mean by divider.

Thanks. You can assume something like this http://s344.photobucket.com/user/Dalianon/media/82014584.jpg.html

on the motorway divides the road. In this case, this not just empty land.

GwylimT

Can the neighbour not just trim the branches themselves and cut the tree back? Who maintains the communal land?

bouicca21

So it's a concrete barrier? How much space between it and the garden wall?

Does the tree look old? If it is there is just a faint possibility of a tree preservation order. If it is just a young self seeded sapling there shouldn't be any problem in just cutting it down. You could probably do this yourselves.

sheramber

My impression is that the 'divider' is a concrete wall, 3 ft high ,at the back of the parking spaces to prevent the cars hitting the neighbour's garden wall.

The strip of land between the divider and the garden wall is 3 ft wide and is at present 'no man's land'.

Is it mentioned in the title deeds, missive, or whatever was signed when buying the flats.

The strip may belong to the builder , or it may still belong to whoever owned the land before the flats were built.

We bought a house with a 15 foot strip of woodland behind it with an 8 ft wall beyond that , then a 30 foot drop to the land below.

This strip still belonged to the land owner who insisted on retaining ownership of that strip of land when he sold the rest to the builder.

It was pointless really because the only way to access it was through the gardens of the houses since the gardens of the end houses joined up with the 8 ft wall.


You could try asking the local council to see of they have information.

The original plans might show something.

Check your paperwork for buying the flat to see if responsibilty of the strip belongs with the flat owners.

truthman007

GwylimT wrote: »

Can the neighbour not just trim the branches themselves and cut the tree back? Who maintains the communal land?

Neighbour is trying to find a way of get some money from the car parking owners and he says tree damaged his wall but it looks in the last big wind made fallen some bricks.

truthman007

bouicca21 wrote: »

So it's a concrete barrier? How much space between it and the garden wall?

Does the tree look old? If it is there is just a faint possibility of a tree preservation order. If it is just a young self seeded sapling there shouldn't be any problem in just cutting it down. You could probably do this yourselves.

Neighbour Garden 30m
Garden wall 20 cm
concrete Barrier - 1 m
car parks boundary starts immediately after concrete Barrier.

may be a year old tree.