Can't sell house due to neighbours tree!

moneyistooshorttomention

Car1980 wrote: »

You can do what you like to parts of the tree that are on your land. So digging a trench on your side, sawing off the roots and installing piles should be an option. If the solution would make the tree unstable or cause it's death I suspect you'd have to go legal though.

This may turn out to be the only fallback position - if all else fails. That being to chop off every bit of the tree (roots and all) that is on OP's land and put down one of those strong root barrier things to prevent roots growing through.

I've got a neighbour that's done exactly the same thing - ie trees very close (bang up beside my dividing wall) and I will be putting mega-strength root barrier going down from my wall (hopefully underneath my wall) that will at least stop any risk of roots on my land. In the process I will be removing any that are already on my land.

Re neighbours own house "becoming unmortgageable too" - OP may also have a neighbour that doesnt actually care about that fact particularly - as they are so elderly that the next time the house gets sold it will be as a probate house. That - very logical - thought will only cross the mind of someone that is using the house as a "step on the ladder" house and it would impact them personally to devalue it like that.

david1951

I sympathise with the neighbour... very rarely do trees actually cause damage. What appears to have happened is a surveyor has simply made an observation that a tree is close and might cause damage (but probably won't).

My answer would be the same - so what?