Bought a house on a new development which had a huge Leylandii growing next to it. Looks to me like it is the remnants of an old hedge as there are four trunks very close together at the bottom. It towers more than 3 storeys high.
Obviously when we bought the house we knew it was there, but in the three years that we have been here, the tree has become very unhealthy looking and shed loads of its inner branches, it is all brown and twiggy in the inside and only the very outer bit is green.
The branches of the trees overhang our land and the branches are literally 2m from the front of our house. Not so bad when they were fresh and luxuriant looking, but now it looks all drab and horrible.
All the landscaping that we had done at the front is dead and brown and dry, the ground is covered in tree litter, tiny dead twigs etc.
The trees are owned by the people who sold the land to the developers, they got into a dispute with the developers about something and as a sort of tit for tat refused to remove the trees when the original landscaping was done. They have kept ownership of a small strip of land right along the length of the development, presumably because they live over the road and wanted some say in future issues. They cannot see the Leylandii from their house, they live round the corner.
Gosh, have whiffled on, sorry.
Essentially have every sympathy with them if the developers were being twunts (they have been twunts with the new residents too) but their dispute went on before we moved here, we had no idea about it, and now the trees are blighting my own house/land and enjoyment of my property.
What are my chances of getting them to remove them?
Thanks.
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wildstrawberryplace · 29/03/2010 15:09
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