How do you get over the neighbours who rip the guts out of the neighbourhood?

Out,_Vile_Jelly

This is the future of the UK; more people, roads, houses, garages and cars, and vastly reduced green space and wildlife.


-plant some native hedging (beech, hawthorne, hazel) along your boundary.
-join a local wildlife charity
-adopt your neighbours a tree for Christmas: https://adopt-a-tree.net/FAQs.html

D_M_E

The trees are gone, that's the first stage of their plans, but what about part 2, the land grab?

Have the neighbours done anything about that?

How much land is involved and how are they trying to do the grab?

Comms69

googler wrote: »

In short, we're in a triangle of three houses, with two shared boundaries in a "T" form. One neighbour applied for planning permission for a garage barely a metre from the boundary of the other two houses, where one line of the T had mature trees forming a "hedge" between. They're also trying to move the boundary between them and the other neighbour, and execute a land-grab from them.

I and the other neighbours objected to the planning app, but were overruled.

Work started Monday, all of the mature tree/hedge line is gone, and the neighbours have basically ripped the guts out of our neighbourhood. I watched as the tree surgeons felled the last, largest tree, and they turned and smiled as they did so, with a punching, clenched-fist, victory salute as I walked away.


For anyone who has been through something similar - how did you get over it?

Did you ever get beyond regarding the neighbour as the evil one, the one who rode rough-shod over you, selfishly pressing on despite your objection?

All I can see in my future is a black rage, a perpetual dislike or hatred of this neighbour, that will persist until either they move or we do...

It was his land, why are you concerning yourself with it.


In anycase it's not usual to get black rage from this, go speak to your GP.

sst1234

You are being mature enough to want to get over it which shows that you don’t want conflict.
Bottom line is it’s their property and they can do what they like, in this case even the planning authority agrees. Plannning authorities are not particularly helpful when it comes to allowing development so the fact that your objection was overruled shows that you and the other neighbor have been difficult.
You may need to move if you want to live somewhere more leafy. But generally speaking the tone of your post shows that you are actively trying to manage how you feel about it which is commendable.

moneyhelpuser5

I would check the planning information regarding this to see whether he had sufficient authority and followed due process to change the boundaries. Do that sooner rather than later.

Cakeguts

If you go to your local garden centre they might have quite big trees that cost around £100 where I live that give them a good start. Autumn is the best time for planting anything so if you put them in now you should be able to get some quite good trees in a few years time. http://pixtonwoodlands.co.uk/available-stock/ this is a site just for example and not recommended by me that just gives you an idea of what is available in mature trees.



A few years ago we bought a mature pear tree to replace a tree that had died and it is a really good tree and a good shape because it was pruned properly from the start. They are more expensive but you get a big tree quicker. You could also consider mature fruit trees.

AdrianC

"Mature trees" "forming a hedge"?

Can you post any pics? To me those two don't quite tie together, and it'd be useful to know exactly what we're talking about here. What length of hedge has been removed for this garage? Is it the end of a single garage, or longer?

Were there individual TPOs on the trees? Or were they large enough to come under any local blanket TPOs?

Mojisola

FreeBear wrote: »

Stick with native species such as oak, beech, poplar

These are too big for most gardens.

Marvel1

If your objectetion stood and they couldn't build it, then you would be the one gloating.

Their property, get over it.

Davesnave

moneyhelpuser5 wrote: »

I would check the planning information regarding this to see whether he had sufficient authority and followed due process to change the boundaries. Do that sooner rather than later.

The boundary hasn't been altered. OP says as much.