Hello.
I would REALLY appreciate any comment on this.
We are buying a new build house and just recently exchanged our contract.
Before we exchange, we went to see the house.
It wasn't snagging viewing, we just wanted to see inside our new house before exchange.
Then I noticed that there was a quite tall tree between our house and next door house.
I asked a sales lady and a site manager about which house would responsible for this tree.
They told us it was our responsibility.
The tree, planted only a two meters-ish away from the front door is an apple tree.
I don't want any tree right in front of our house.
The tree is already blocking a view from a room upstair window.
Also when the apples drop, I have to collect them before they rotten otherwise it smells, flies all over, makes our new paving dirty and high volume of food waste (I don't think we would eat them).
We asked them to remove the tree, which was apparently just planted a couple of weeks ago.
The sales lady came back today and said that we need a permission from a landscape architect.
Also there is another fruits tree is going to be planted in the back garden.
These two trees are not on the contract we agreed.
If the landscape architect refuses to remove the trees, do we really have to look after them?
When they get bigger, we need to pay a tree surgeon to prune and we need to keep collecting fruits from the ground?
We are thinking that this house would be our life time house.
I really don't want to keep collecting fruits from the ground, complaint from next door about over grown tree and keep paying to a tree surgeon to prune it until I physically can not do it.
I appreciate any idea, suggestion or comment on this.
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wishtobuyadog · 28/09/2015 18:23
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