Huge tree, moaning neighbours

phoenix_w

dermonte wrote: »

I would be carefull as if it crosses their boundery, they can employ someone to cut it down and send you the bill as its your property.

This post is dangerously false. The only time anyone can bill you for a tree is if it causes damage to someone else's property. If the tree is crossing someone else's property then they can prune it however they want (including cutting any roots which may kill it), but they can't invoice you for any work done to it.

SailorSam

I'd moan if one of my neighbours planted a huge tree and didn't maintain it.

spadoosh

SailorSam wrote: »

I'd moan if one of my neighbours planted a huge tree and didn't maintain it.

Would you moan if it self seeded? <no puns>

zenshi

SailorSam wrote: »

I'd moan if one of my neighbours planted a huge tree and didn't maintain it.

The tree was there decades before his house was even built and it may have slipped past you but I have had it pollarded and maintained. Some things happen in life which means plans have to be put on hold!

SailorSam

Doesn't matter how the tree came to get there. If it's in your garden you've got to maintain it. The Op cut it 15yrs ago, while it was small it would have been easy to keep small.

zenshi

SailorSam wrote: »

Doesn't matter how the tree came to get there. If it's in your garden you've got to maintain it. The Op cut it 15yrs ago, while it was small it would have been easy to keep small.

Lol, I am the OP.........

Hoploz

SailorSam wrote: »

I'd moan if one of my neighbours planted a huge tree and didn't maintain it.

You don't plant huge trees ... They grow that way and then people start complaining. Often when they've just moved in, knowing full well the tree was there before they bought the house.

In this case, the neighbour has been there a long time and is presumably waiting for it to be trimmed back like it was some years ago. I agree, if tephra want it done quicker they could make a contribution. But I do like the renting idea. Would this be the part with the tree in it? If so you'd need to make sure the tree was specifically mentioned in the lease and needing to be retained! Do you actually mind whether the tree stays or goes, if someone else is paying?

spadoosh

SailorSam wrote: »

Doesn't matter how the tree came to get there. If it's in your garden you've got to maintain it. The Op cut it 15yrs ago, while it was small it would have been easy to keep small.

Im less expectant. The government cant even maintain potholes, think its expecting too much for some randomer to maintain something they probably know little about.

My next door neighbour has a HUGE tree. Whilst it blocks out the light and ive had to strategically place the veg plot, its a tree and really is doing no harm (suppose it might fall over one day, chances are ill be dead before then though) and i like trees, they help us live and stuff. Its much nicer than the monstrosity of a permitted development man shed another neighbour (a few doors down) has built.

zenshi

When it was properly pollarded by a qualified tree surgeon, he stated it will not need doing again for 10/15 years. I'm right at the end of the timescale and it will be done.

I love the tree. It won't go but will be severely pollarded

SailorSam

I've got trees in my garden, i've cut them once this year. They're all about 8' tall at the moment so at the end of next month i'll cut them again so that they're level with the fence (6'). Probably do the same next year, 2 quick cuts a year for my own benefit as much as my neighbours.