Neighbour`s trees overhang
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Can you gardening legal eagles please advise me on this one.
This is a photo of the bottom of my garden. You can just see a spade that is leaning on what should be the fence. All the trees and bushes are the neighbour`s, parts of which overhangs by over eight feet into my garden. We have spoken to the neighbour, he is just not interested, not a very nice person, a right misery guts. He wants it as thick as possible to blot out the view of my house.
What are my rights? Can I employ someone to cut all HIS stuff that overhangs into my garden. Do I have to give all the debris back to him. Could he be liable for the cost of all this. If after doing all this and he can see into my house could I be liable for anything.
As for this monstrosity, its also his. I suppose there is nothing I can do about it, just live with it.
Old Merc said:
What are my rights? Can I employ someone to cut all HIS stuff that overhangs into my garden.
YesOld Merc said:
Do I have to give all the debris back to him.
YesOld Merc said:
Could he be liable for the cost of all this.
NoOld Merc said:
If after doing all this and he can see into my house could I be liable for anything.
NoIANAL
My neighbour takes great pride in chopping down branches that overhang into his garden and then lobbing them over the fence even though I pay someone every year to come and prune the trees but he is impatient and refuses to wait. I return the favour by waiting until he has a few windows open and then have a little fire in the wood burner.
You are well within your rights to do the same. In your postion I'd be tempted to let them know what you plan to do, be civilised and say the you are getting someone in to prune them right back and was wondering if he needed anything doing at the same time.
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You are well within your rights to do the same. In your postion I'd be tempted to let them know what you plan to do, be civilised and say the you are getting someone in to prune them right back and was wondering if he needed anything doing at the same time.
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Mammasaid said:
Old Merc said:
Do I have to give all the debris back to him.
YesPersonally I like it, and cutting it back might end up looking worse with no greenery.
ETA have you asked about this before? I'm sure I recognise the pictures.
Edited by Bill on Friday 22 May 16:31
Wow that's really mature lovely and must be home for all sorts of wildlife. I have huge limes behind my house and it's a privilege to watch them change with the seasons.
OP why not prune back a tree at a time but over a period of time. Then the end result won't be catastrophic. You've actually got a cracking view.
OP why not prune back a tree at a time but over a period of time. Then the end result won't be catastrophic. You've actually got a cracking view.
You've got the right to trim/prune any overhang, to the boundary of your property. Remember to offer to return the trimmings or dispose of responsibily yourself.
But that doesn't deal with the height of things.
That looks like it qualifies as a hedge, so check out the High Hedge Law about getting it chopped down in size.
Looking to p
s off your neighbor, are you?
But that doesn't deal with the height of things.
That looks like it qualifies as a hedge, so check out the High Hedge Law about getting it chopped down in size.
Looking to p
s off your neighbor, are you?Bill said:
Mammasaid said:
Old Merc said:
Do I have to give all the debris back to him.
YesPersonally I like it, and cutting it back might end up looking worse with no greenery.
ETA have you asked about this before? I'm sure I recognise the pictures.
Edited by Bill on Friday 22 May 16:31
Thanks for the replies guys. I have mixed feelings about this. We must do some cutting back, trouble is how much. If we do nothing it won't be long before some of it will be dangling on our lawn.
It's just a shame that this naighbour is just a st and refuses to cooperate. The naighbours either side of us are lovely people, they also share this problem with us.
It's just a shame that this naighbour is just a s
t and refuses to cooperate. The naighbours either side of us are lovely people, they also share this problem with us.I'd be tempted to just try and tidy it up a bit rather than scalp it.
We have a miserable old bag at the back and to the side of us who's garden is chest high weeds. I'm forever running my hedge trimmer across the top of the fence in an attempt to fend off her brambles and it drives me mad. She has a laurel hedge too that is almost touching our house over the side entry thats got a date with my pole pruner. I did it a few years ago, the branches I deposited back over her fence are still there in her horders paradise garden. Shes getting some more soon.
We have a miserable old bag at the back and to the side of us who's garden is chest high weeds. I'm forever running my hedge trimmer across the top of the fence in an attempt to fend off her brambles and it drives me mad. She has a laurel hedge too that is almost touching our house over the side entry thats got a date with my pole pruner. I did it a few years ago, the branches I deposited back over her fence are still there in her horders paradise garden. Shes getting some more soon.
Old Merc said:
Thanks for the replies guys. I have mixed feelings about this. We must do some cutting back, trouble is how much. If we do nothing it won't be long before some of it will be dangling on our lawn.
It's just a shame that this naighbour is just a st and refuses to cooperate. The naighbours either side of us are lovely people, they also share this problem with us.
Surely it’s better for you to cut what makes sense to you rather than him cut on his side and you lose all your privacy?It's just a shame that this naighbour is just a s
t and refuses to cooperate. The naighbours either side of us are lovely people, they also share this problem with us.
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