Tree ownership problem.

Mike Hibbert · 2004-09-21T17:47:29+00:00

Hello all,I need to paint the side on my house, it's a bungalow with a loftconversion, so the top point of the roof is about 6 - 8m tall (can't get upthere to measure!) . I have a fence that runs down the side of the house alittle over 1m from the house.I wont be able to get up there with a lodder as it is too steep an angle, soI thought about hiring a platform. Hss seem to do one to fit ok so thatsfine, except the old boy at the side has a couple of old conifers about theheight of the house. They are right on the boundary by the fence so half offthem are onverhaning my fence, given the tighness of the fence for gettingthe platform up there, this is gonna be a pain. Whats the legal position onthis? I assume I can just legally prune them back off my side, but this isgoing to decimate half the tree, and probably kill it. I dont want to pisshim off as I'm going to have to live next to him and want to put thesteadying legs to the platform over his side!Any ideas?Mike

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Aidan 22 years ago

Have I got this right?

There are conifers 6 to 8m high about 1m from the house?

Do you have any cracks in your walls? Any incidence of subsidence in the area, i.e., shrinkable clay subsoil? The trees are too close, they will probably suck moisture out of the ground in summer, the subsoil will contract and the foundations will crack. Ask the old gentleman whether he is insured for underpinning and making good. Painting the walls is not the problem.

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