Neighbour has cut down my tree!!

martindow · 27 February 2017 at 10:17AM

I think replacing this tree with a mature one would be far more expensive than a few hundred Pounds. An enormous hole would be needed, an expensive tree and a crane to lift it in is going to be thousands I would think.

The larger the tree the less likely it is to survive being transplanted and it would need long term watering for it to have any chance of survival.

This site talks of up to 50 000 Dollars for mature trees

https://www.reference.com/home-garden/average-cost-tree-transplanting-9859a2a2956b7205#

Ithaca · 27 February 2017 at 11:25AM

On some of the US property boards I have browsed in the past they love tree-removal cases.

In Washington, for example, you are liable for 3 x the cost of replacing the trees as a punitive penalty. And that's replacing on a like-for-like basis, so you can't just offer a 2 y/old sapling to replace a 30 year old mature tree. Cut down a couple of mature trees and you can be looking at hundreds of thousands of dollars if the owner can prove it was done willfully.

[Deleted User] · 27 February 2017 at 1:16PM

evosy1978 wrote: »

That would explain why her fence is exactly 46m! I really can't remember if her plan said 50 or 50m. It was very small..

I've been on the land registry for both mine and hers. Neither have any measurements or numbers on. Just a pencil drawn overhead view of the properties.

However, it is one straight line which is the border line between mine and hers and every other house along both of our roads. But the tree is stepped into my land.

The tree blocked her sunlight now I think about it.! Obviously I can't get the tree back but the more I think about it the more I think it's 50 yards and that she new it....

I might go to a Cab centre this week...

Did you have to pay on the Land Reg website? As I'm interested in looking at my boundary..