Neighbour wants to hire tree prumer to cut overhanging branches and send us the bill

GDB2222

Yes, I was thinking that the OP has no grounds for a complaint about the police.

poly192

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Ectophile

GDB2222 wrote: »

Yes, I was thinking that the OP has no grounds for a complaint about the police.

Why not? Police officers shouldn't be giving bad legal advice to people.

jonnyb1978

Don't see the point in dragging out complaints to the police.

Send a letter recorded delivery to your neighbour giving permission to cut down any over hanging branches only.. You do not want them back so cost and disposal is at their discretion as there is no legal ground for you to pay.

Also copy a letter to your community officer and leave it st that.

Up to the neighbour what they do then.

Doozergirl

Ectophile wrote: »

Why not? Police officers shouldn't be giving bad legal advice to people.

People shouldn't be calling the police for advice over a tree. They're stretched enough as it is.

It's like calling a chiropractor and wondering why they've give you duff advice on dentistry. Why would it be correct? Time and tax payers' money spent dealing with a complaint about it just adds insult to injury. What would the upshot even be?

Davesnave

The police should be made aware that they have given wrong advice, but don't rub their noses in it. Instead, be conciliatory in your supply of correct info to them

The next time the neighbour tries to use the police against you, and there will be a next time, things might turn out differently. It doesn't hurt to let everyone know you are well informed.

Aylesbury_Duck

Doozergirl wrote: »

People shouldn't be calling the police for advice over a tree.

What's the special branch for then?

rach_k

Why don't your want your ("lovely") tree properly pruned rather than hacked at by an amateur?

If it's your tree, it is unfair to expect the neighbours to put up with overhanging branches if they don't agree that it's lovely. They *could* cut it themselves but there's a risk they will make a real mess of it and then your tree will suffer, and if it's 20m high, how exactly do you expect them to do that safely? While they may not be able to make you pay for it, I think common sense and human decency would have me pay for my own tree, especially if I was fond of the tree in question.

Aylesbury_Duck

rach_k wrote: »

Why don't your want your ("lovely") tree properly pruned rather than hacked at by an amateur?

If it's your tree, it is unfair to expect the neighbours to put up with overhanging branches if they don't agree that it's lovely. They *could* cut it themselves but there's a risk they will make a real mess of it and then your tree will suffer, and if it's 20m high, how exactly do you expect them to do that safely? While they may not be able to make you pay for it, I think common sense and human decency would have me pay for my own tree, especially if I was fond of the tree in question.

I agree. This is one of those occasions where going by the book will probably result in tears. There was a thread here recently where someone did just as you've described: cut back the neighbour's hedge to the boundary in such a way as to have effectively destroyed the hedge, even though all the cutting was done on the correct side.

AndyMc.....

nickopicko wrote: »

Thanks so much, The police gave us false information on this and several other things, I'll be writing a complaint, they lied to us multiple times about many things even not relating to this, I wish I had recorded it.

(Unfortunately there is no relationship, once my mother was threatened with violence and we called the police on them. I believe the neighbors are using the tree as an excuse to cause issues, behind the tree is a very tall run down looking church, and our lovely tree covers this hideous building so it is pure jealously. And I do not want to make any contributions as there is no need to cut the branches down in the first place.)

The police gave us false information, saying the neighbors could send us the bill! I'll make a complaint to the police as well for giving false information. Even one of the neighbor support officers suggested we don't go in the garden when our neighbors are there!




Thanks Penny, Noted.

And what do you want to achieve by this? Nothing will happen, the tree and neighbours will still be there.