Neighbour won’t let me cut down my own tree?
Discussion
FWIW said:
Sounds to me like to he op knows that the tree is on neighbours land...that’s why he wussed out.
He should have still cut it down then claimed ignorance and apologised profusely and bought the neighbours a bottle of wine and offered to re plant a more suitable tree/shrub/bush not some water hogging antipodean monstrosity. 
JQ said:
Routemaster93 said:
It’s crazy I’m having this problem for a tree that cost me £4.50 in 2004.
But it's a problem all of your own making, you let a child tell you what you can and can't do. It's your tree, in your garden, just cut it down.This, 100%
Don't understand your post at all. Cut the bl@@dy thing down!
JQ said:
But it's a problem all of your own making, you let a child tell you what you can and can't do. It's your tree, in your garden, just cut it down.
This is exactly right. Forget what a kid says about your tree in your garden. If he talks to you again either ignore him or hip throw him. reminds me of recently, a neighbor frothed at me about how my 'Japanese knotweed' was threatening his garden. Said 'knotweed' is a kiwifruit vine my father planted in 1985. Refused to take 'it's a Chinese Gooseberry' for an answer. I would hammer frozen sausages but he has only got concrete paving.
Routemaster93 said:
Back in 2004 I bought and planted a Eucalyptus tree at then top of our garden slightly on the border between our house and the neighbours house. Because of their big trees the Eucalyptus is leaning almost at 45 degrees over our garden. It’s now about 20 foot tall and the trunk only about 5” diameter. It looks hideous as it is.
So today I came out and started to rope the tree to control its fall and begin cutting, only for the neighbours annoying son to come out and tell me it’s their tree. So I told him i bought it and planted it in 2004. But knowing nothing about gardening he said it had been their much longer. Ffs it’s a Eucalyptus they grow fast! He knows nothing about gardening. Doesn’t even know what type of bloody tree it is.
If I don’t do anything it will become a monster that will require expensive professional felling as it will become dangerous and unstable.
Point is it’s my bloody tree on the border. I told the son that, but his father was out all day so had to down tools I’ve wasted a full day.
So my question is am I in my rights to cut down my own tree on the boundary that’s leaning right over our garden, I ll even leave a 5’ stump with one branch remaining if it satisfies them?
Depending where you live this coming cold snap could kill it anyway. Neighbours huge Eucalyptus was killed with a week's worth of frost and one night of -17c a few years ago. If not chop it down anyway, if it's yours, got bugger all to do with neighbour.So today I came out and started to rope the tree to control its fall and begin cutting, only for the neighbours annoying son to come out and tell me it’s their tree. So I told him i bought it and planted it in 2004. But knowing nothing about gardening he said it had been their much longer. Ffs it’s a Eucalyptus they grow fast! He knows nothing about gardening. Doesn’t even know what type of bloody tree it is.
If I don’t do anything it will become a monster that will require expensive professional felling as it will become dangerous and unstable.
Point is it’s my bloody tree on the border. I told the son that, but his father was out all day so had to down tools I’ve wasted a full day.
So my question is am I in my rights to cut down my own tree on the boundary that’s leaning right over our garden, I ll even leave a 5’ stump with one branch remaining if it satisfies them?
Edited by Routemaster93 on Friday 23 February 21:32
Smile at son while revving the chainsaw. Whats he gonna do?
Nothing can be done, its your tree. Our neigbhour cut 7 big tidy, mature sqaured fir trees down that was the boandary line.... WTF.. It only covered the site of her grey mouldy garage. Maybe they was causing damp or something...Shes easily be 70 so we just erected a fence the next day. I enjoy building them. She walked and gave the fence a big look, like it offended her. She also shuvvles her snow and piles it where I Park, while sneakily looking over at the house making sure were not watching. It gives me a good giggle. I still wave everyday, must hurt her inside.
Nothing can be done, its your tree. Our neigbhour cut 7 big tidy, mature sqaured fir trees down that was the boandary line.... WTF.. It only covered the site of her grey mouldy garage. Maybe they was causing damp or something...Shes easily be 70 so we just erected a fence the next day. I enjoy building them. She walked and gave the fence a big look, like it offended her. She also shuvvles her snow and piles it where I Park, while sneakily looking over at the house making sure were not watching. It gives me a good giggle. I still wave everyday, must hurt her inside.
hotchy said:
Smile at son while revving the chainsaw. Whats he gonna do?
Nothing can be done, its your tree. Our neigbhour cut 7 big tidy, mature sqaured fir trees down that was the boandary line.... WTF.. It only covered the site of her grey mouldy garage. Maybe they was causing damp or something...Shes easily be 70 so we just erected a fence the next day. I enjoy building them. She walked and gave the fence a big look, like it offended her. She also shuvvles her snow and piles it where I Park, while sneakily looking over at the house making sure were not watching. It gives me a good giggle. I still wave everyday, must hurt her inside.
Old dears are strange. We recently moved and at the rear of the new garden are three trees, the first is an enormous, ornamental Cyprus that looks lovely, the last is a wizened old yew but slap in the middle was a ghastly and enormous leylandii. I hate them anyway and this one had died on one side and robbed the whole of that part of the garden of light. So it was going to be cut down ASAP. Nothing can be done, its your tree. Our neigbhour cut 7 big tidy, mature sqaured fir trees down that was the boandary line.... WTF.. It only covered the site of her grey mouldy garage. Maybe they was causing damp or something...Shes easily be 70 so we just erected a fence the next day. I enjoy building them. She walked and gave the fence a big look, like it offended her. She also shuvvles her snow and piles it where I Park, while sneakily looking over at the house making sure were not watching. It gives me a good giggle. I still wave everyday, must hurt her inside.
Popped over to the new neighbour just to check that they didn’t have any objections and the lady instead offered to help contribute to the costs of it would help get rid of it any quicker.
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