ferreterni 29 Posted March 30, 2009 Report Share Posted March 30, 2009 Maybe some one could help me with legal points here. I had a poplar tree at the bottom of my garden, was around roof height. The neighbours at the back of me asked the man next to them to see if they could/he could trim it a bit. After he approached me I sort of left it be, he then asked me again a week later. I went to his door and said what is it they want doing, he told me they just wanted to thin it a little and maybe shorten it and lop of the overhang in their garden. I said, being neighbourly that would be ok, but don't take much of the side as the wife wants to put a wendy house in for our daughter. He said that they would do all the work and remove the branches, and he would tell them when they got in from work and they would have a word with me. Now that was all near two weeks ago and never heard anything, until saturday morning. Came down around 8.30 to give nipper breakfast and looked down garden. All I got now is an 8ft stump. They cut the f***ing tree down. I am steaming and want to know where I stand. Tempted to throw in a load of conifers along the fence. They done something similar with another neighbour, cut their conifers down to fence height, and killed the trees, leaving a big gap in the fence line. Does anyone know the legal points on how high trees can be, this was one tree not a hedge of trees. Thanks for any help. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catch me if you can 0 Posted March 30, 2009 Report Share Posted March 30, 2009 Anything that hangs over into there garden from your garden they can legally remove and actually throw it back into your garden for you to depose of, but if they have hung over the fence into your garden to cut the tree they are infact trespassing Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ferreterni 29 Posted March 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2009 haven't just hung over. Would think they would have to be in the garden to cut it. Was a lovely big poplar tree, wife loved it. Garden looks terrible. Been told it will grow back, but that isn't the ppoint. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ferreterni 29 Posted March 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2009 Just to make it clear. They haven't thinned it a bit. They took my roof height tree, and have left me with the trunk and nothing else. its bout 8ft high stump at the end of my garden. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Malt 379 Posted March 30, 2009 Report Share Posted March 30, 2009 Not much you can do about it now I'm afraid, but it sounds like a case of criminal damage to me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jasper65 6 Posted March 30, 2009 Report Share Posted March 30, 2009 Don't talk to me about neighbours . mine has just retired and he doesn't stop all day lighting fires, trimming hedges, digging up his driveway, cleaning his guttering beleive it of not with a toothbrush , scrubing his patio on his hands and knees gone 11pm in the evening, pruning anything that slightly over hangs his boundary. I was in the garden with the birds the other day and heard him snipping away! he was litteraly cutting small sprigs of Leylandi off that hung over his fence by about 3 inches at the most.... I even saw him crawling about on his lawn the other evening in the dark with a torch picking twigs up . there's one Nutter in the area and I have to live next door to him. I sit and laugh most of the year at him but the one thing that gives me the arse is he always makes the special effort to scare my birds during the breeding season! he mainly waits until we have gone out and when I come back they have been spooked off nests and some have hit roof going nuts. I have now set up camera's in the garden to catch the arsehole redhanded ..... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kay 3,709 Posted March 30, 2009 Report Share Posted March 30, 2009 I think most of us have or have had annoying neighbours , yesterday mine took out a panel of fence to paint it , why he couldnt just do it in situ is beond me i didnt realise the panel was out so let the dogs out & then it was rapidly put back in when i asked if his bitch was still in season as i didnt think clumber spaniel x greyhound pups would sell Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ferreterni 29 Posted March 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2009 Our last neighbour before we moved had cctv overlooking our front and back. Then showed tapes of who passed the house and when etc We were being decent and they went too far. Have looked it up and found that the law says they done wrong, and the situation would not have been touched by councils. Trouble is this neighbour is a sister to the people who I use for access to my permission, and own some of it too. It's a small village. I don't want to cause myself more trouble, but don't want to drop it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Malt 379 Posted March 30, 2009 Report Share Posted March 30, 2009 Our last neighbour before we moved had cctv overlooking our front and back. Then showed tapes of who passed the house and when etc We were being decent and they went too far. Have looked it up and found that the law says they done wrong, and the situation would not have been touched by councils. Trouble is this neighbour is a sister to the people who I use for access to my permission, and own some of it too. It's a small village. I don't want to cause myself more trouble, but don't want to drop it. Just plant a line of leylandii across the fence. If you keep it to a certain height, there's nothing he can do about it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The one 8,487 Posted March 30, 2009 Report Share Posted March 30, 2009 Pretty sure if its a popular it will start to coppice at all the cut's and there will be even more branches growing soon ,Then tell him to leave it well alone Quote Link to post Share on other sites
harrycatcat 31 Posted March 30, 2009 Report Share Posted March 30, 2009 Get some of those fast growing trees I think they are willows they advertise them in the BASC magazine for quick screens think they grow 3 or 4 ft a year if not more. If you rely on the folk that cut your tree down for your permission then you are f*ckd unless you take up a differnt hobby. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ferreterni 29 Posted March 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2009 I don't rely on them, but they are related, and it's a small place. Have been told that it will grow back twice as hard. Inlaws took one down to the stump a few year ago and now they got two trees. Think that the course of action will be to let it grow and make sure nothing grows over boundary. looked up laws, and they have no rights over light levels etc or leaves and debris ( unless it blocks their guttering) which it doesn't. Would plant another tree bit further up the hedge to make a point but only really wanted the one tree, that was for my daughter to have a summer play house under. Just hope it grows back ok, and doesn't look ugly. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
droid 11 Posted March 30, 2009 Report Share Posted March 30, 2009 Pretty sure if its a popular it will start to coppice at all the cut's and there will be even more branches growing soon ,Then tell him to leave it well alone I reckon you're bang on there, mate. With a lot of trees, the harder you cut them back, the thicker and quicker they grow..... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LDR 29 Posted March 30, 2009 Report Share Posted March 30, 2009 Alright mate, if you can find out if that tree had a TPO on it, the person who cut it down could be liable for a £20000 fine and the cost of a replacement tree, or £5000 for damage to it....ie pruning, but you'll have to be able to prove who hacked it first!!!! if what they've left is a stump it'll grow back like a pollard and then you'll have to have it sorted every 5 years or so, also by just leaving the main stem like that, the tree will be open to infection and disease and might mean that the tree will lose alot of its core strength in the future if it recovers!!!!!! Also seeing as pops aint the most stable trees in the first place, could be double trouble!!!!! Check its TPO status first though mate........... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Quasar 1 Posted March 30, 2009 Report Share Posted March 30, 2009 have a look here : http://www.diynot.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=4 bloody good DIY what not forum. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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