Housing Association Cut down Tree

glasgowdan

But it wasn't your tree...

AdrianC

Wisteria isn't a tree. It's a climbing shrub (although they can be grown stand-alone, with sufficient support until established, but that doesn't sound like the case here). If your fence panel was solid, removing the climber should not have damaged it - but having the plant up against it for eight years may well have caused the fence panel to start to rot. If that's the case, then the damage is simply wear and tear, and not the HA's problem.

As far as the actual boundary goes, I suspect that the official map of your plot at the Land Registry isn't detailed enough to determine for sure who owns the plant - so the fence would be taken as a good guideline as to the actual boundary, in the absence of any better indication. It certainly isn't unreasonable for the HA to assume that a plant on the outside of a long-established boundary fence is not part of the land the other side of the fence.