I'll try to explain this as best I can. We have a large rear garden (about 130ft) which is very narrow, and at the end by our house is a row of horrible conifers, about 8 in total, that were planted too close together by previous owners, they are about 6-7ft in height and the row is about 30ft in length or so. Most of the growth is totally dead on our side due to lack of light and over enthusiastic cutting by the previous owners.
Due to their location the conifers block out the majority of light to the patio section of our garden and because they're quite wide, take up space widthwise too, so after a lot of thought I'm planning to get them cut down, and replaced possibly with a fence.
The conifers do not form the boundary with our neighbours, the boundary is made by a chainlink fence which lies behind the trunks of the trees. The trunks of the conifers themselves grow solely on our side.
However - our neighbours, who we have a 'live and let live' relationship with are very fond of the fact that these conifers give them almost total privacy (they have no neighbours on their other side). The conifers don't take up much of their space so from their point of view (if I were them) I'd be annoyed if they were taken down. I havn't discussed my plan with them and to be honest I'm afraid to as I'm expecting them to get the hump.
My husband won't go to talk to them (he's better at these things than I am) and thinks we might upset them unnecessarily by taking the conifers down. On the other hand, I hate having these half-dead trees taking up space and light in our garden when they belong to us and we have the power to remove them.
I'm rambling, but any advice?
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Want to remove trees on our boundary line and afraid of neighbour dispute
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makemineabacardi · 26/04/2013 15:29
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