neighbours vegetation causing damage to my property

spadoosh

Carrot007 wrote: »

So you are a bad neighbout too. You are to offer the overhang back and if they do not accept you are responsible for its disposal. Bad is subjective, i dont think doing this makes the OP a bad neighbour myself







I am having trouble imagining this. Pictures please.

Probably not the OPs particular issue but you should get the drift..



You can see how damage has been cuased either side of the base of the tree. As for the otherside of this wall im assuming its mud and as such wont be that badly damaged, remove the mud apply a render and the tree roots will mean itll be lucky to last 6 months before it starts getting forced off.

sevenhills wrote: »

Trees growing out of a garden wall is quite unusual. Who owns this wall? What height did these trees get to?


How is a garden wall affecting a bathroom?

Its not. Go along any train track and i reckon youll see it hapening within 5 minutes. Near me there is a buddleia (normally always buddleia) growing in to the side of a building that is 30 ft off the ground.

AndyMc..... wrote: »

So what are you currently doing with your garden waste?

I wouldve assumed they where paying to dispose of it, why they would want to pay more to dispose of someone elses stuff is beyond me. Past that the op has come out and said they dont create garden waste excluding that of the neighbours.


@ the op. You should be able to recover costs providing you can prove them and the landlord is found to be negligent. Unfortunately there isnt a huge amount you can do with regards to making them keep on top of things. On that basis i would be issuing a bill every time the slightest bit of damage came up to encourage them to spend the money on offering a solution over temporary fixes.

Davesnaves approach is probably going to be the best result for you, minus having to do the work yourself, at least if you do it that way youve got the most amount of control over it.

Davesnave

mikeyranson wrote: »

thanks hoploz
the people who use this site want to go for the juggler and find fault with your question and offering no help what so ever.

Really? I presume you mean 'jugular,' but it is a balancing act, right enough.

The advice I offered was based on my own experience of having over 1/2 kilometre of boundary to look after in one way or another. Not counting the general public, I have 7 neighbours, all of whom test me, or have expectations of me. They need different approaches/handling, but threatening them with court action isn't one I've used or would recommend.

Let's take an example closest to your situation:

One neighbour is a thatcher's storage barn and yard with about 100' of rough ground next to my hedge. The hedge was planted by me because I was smart enough to see that Mr Thatcher wasn't going to replace his 8' fence, so we still have a boundary now that's falling down.

The ground next to the hedge was rough and full of bramble, docks, nettles and other nasties, so I arranged to go around twice in the growing season and hit these with a selective professional weedkiller. This takes half an hour. Mr Thatcher is cool with it, but has no idea what I do, or why most of his nasty weeds have now turned into harmless grass.

Total cost to me about £2 and an hour of my time per year. I call that a bargain.

But you carry on with your legal threats.....

By the way, GPDR notwithstanding, for £3 you can find out who any registered property is registered to at the Land Registry, but I think you'll find it's actually the tenant who must take the rap for the state of the garden. The landlord's interest in that only occurs at inventory time, when it's usually expected to be in the same (or better) state than it was at the start of the tenancy.

So that's why it's not a bad idea to approach the tenant.....but this is where I came in....

Sorry I can't be of help.

mikeyranson

thanks bothf or your input. I'm sure that the contract with the tenant does state that they are responsible for the garden. But dont forget, these are tenants who dont give two !!!!!! about gardens and being courteous to neighbours. What is shown in theabove photos, could potentially become like my wall in many years if left. I work on the railways myself and network rail spend millions cleaning walls, viaduct and bridge butments yet do nothing on the maintenance level to stop them growing or even trimming/cutting back when growth overcome structures.