My nearing neighbour has a tree in the back of their yard which is approximately 25ft tall and a span on it that goes over into my property and around 3 other neighbouring properties too.

I've put up with it for years with leaves and berries absolutely covering my yard and to the extent down into my drainage channels.

Ive been concerned regards this as I didn't know if the berries are poisonous ever since my granddaughter was born a few weeks ago and the possibility of her putting them in her mouth and swallowing them.

Strangely enough I saw one of the neighbours and she was saying that her puppy has been really poorly and it transpires that having taken her the vet it's these berries that have caused her sickness and diarrhea ‘fortunately my dog doesn't eat them'.

Any legal advice as to what my options are please and could I request that the tree is taken down or for them to keep pruning their branches so that I do not keep getting the mess?.

Thank you.

In reply to Post #1
You can legally prune branches up to the border yourself. But you have to offer them back. Amazingly. I'm afraid they are under no obligation to do anything . If particularly aggrieved you can ask the council to look into the situation but they often charge a fee. I remember this from lookin into the woodland liability that we back on to.

In reply to Post #2
My local council wanted £600 to look into a problem tree the robbing bxxxxxds

In reply to Post #2
Cheers mate, thank you. Much appreciated. Ain't half annoying.

In reply to Post #4
There are plenty of articles online regarding this mate.Have you tried having a friendly chat with the neighbour who's garden it is in.You could express your concern that in a storm the tree could damage your property which potentially they would be liable for.I would cut the branches and put them back in their garden along with any berries/leaves that come off.Take pictures when you do incase they try to say you have damaged some of their property

In reply to Post #5
Hi mate. Cheers for this. I never really realised whose garden it was actually in until the lady told me today that the berries off it had made her dog poorly ‘she thought it was from a different garden than from whose it actually is'. Just so happens that when I looked afterwards it is in the couples yard with whom I had words with ‘well, she with me actually' over a plug in pressure washer I was using in the summer to clean my yard. She telephoned the police over my use of the pressure washer and I had a visit from a local community officer. Oh my life she had a total meltdown at me and didn't like it when I gave her a few home truths back ‘nothing personal though'.

Anyway, cut a long story short she got personal stating my family ‘assume she meant my daughter that she knows has a brain tumour are a drain on the NHS and that I ‘well I did laugh' was a mong and proceeded to tell me that I don't work. Told her I'd worked all my life and then I was told by her ‘you haven't worked for years'. Told her I don't claim benefits so what's your problem?, wouldn't answer me.

I'd take great pleasure in any legal proceedings that I could take but unfortunately this would seem like not an option.

I can't get to the tree as it's in such a difficult to reach place ‘climb over 2 fences' and even if I did manage get to it there's a high risk of injury as those branches are just too high.

Edit - If I could get to it and without being seen I'd poison the 3100dy thing so that it killed it off.

In reply to Post #6
Have a word with the other neighbours it is causing issues for,surely if a few of you get onto the council they will have to act

OK had something like this,only in the wind,the branches kept whacking the 'launders'..guttering,and damaging them..

So,despite my neighbour being a good chap and saying he'd sort it,he didn't.. so..

I have a wonderful thing,it's a stihl pole pruner 18ft long, in the last storm I angle cut the branch,not all the way through,and oh dear it snapped off,deary me,what a shame


Problem solved

BTW,I work as a groundsman,gardner,picked up a few tricks over time..

Ps Glyphosate, in the roots,long pole,game over..lol

In reply to Post #7


Will no doubt see her husband shortly ‘whose dog was poorly' and I'll bring it up and see what he says mate.

Cheers buddy.

Walk into her garden with a chainsaw, cut the **** down and tell her if she comes too close you'll cut the sour old ****'s tits off.
She'd have been getting the berries and leaves back in her letterbox too the ****
These sort of problems tend to get sorted quite quickly round here

In reply to Post #10
Ha,ha,made my day that has, well funny..

Lol..

In reply to Post #10
Now that's good advise

Certain types of trees do not cope well when they have copper nails hammered into the trunks.

Find out when they are going on holiday.

In reply to Post #13
When sun holidays do the £9.50 ones

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Unfortunately she's a woman that has stated to me that they now have everything they need including their own home. She even told me that they've got the plasterers in and that's the last thing that would ever need doing and then went onto say that the kitchen will never need replacing because it is state of the art.

Ill see when they're away and see to it then.

In reply to Post #13


Interesting.

If you do decide to chop back the overhanging branches you're best off checking that there isn't a Tree Preservation Order on the tree or you might find you'll be getting another visit from the police and upto a £20k fine

In reply to Post #18

When I see the concerned neighbour around I'll have a word with him regards my concerns whilst also dropping in that those poisonous berries are also in the garden ‘insert number and place' and that they've poisoned their dog.

In reply to Post #15
Had a similar issue with a neighbour .
Her tree was protruding into our garden and I cut down the branches that were on my side of the fence .
She reported me to the council stating I have destabilised the tree by cutting the branches making her side too heavy .
The council came out and told her to to prune her side of the tree 🌲

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That'll teach her....lol.

I haven't yet managed to see the chap around whose tree it is. I have however seen my other neighbour whose dog was poisoned by those berries and proceeded to tell me just how poorly his dog was. Hopefully he's going have a word.


As taking dog for a walk I just missed him as he driving part way down the road.

In reply to Post #23
Probably not the best idea to publicly plan your act of vandalism/criminal damage.

As for 'poisonous berries' half the plants in the average garden centre could kill you.
I'm tempted to add an oleander to the chrysanthemums, hellebore, lilies, azaleas, cyclamen and daffodils so the neighbours cat is really running the gauntlet all year round when it decides it wants to **** in my garden

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