Neighbour's tree - update

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If you read my original thread about my neighbour's unreasonable demands in a not like for like replacement of a Hawthorn tree in a shared hedge, there is an update.

I have paid for the replacement with a different larger tree in a different spot. However, it has made me feel so different about living here. They are new neighbours so I haven't felt this way before.

Our very large garden is L shaped. The bottom of the L adjoins their garden and the bottom of the L runs along the bottom of other neighbours' gardens. That part of the garden is about 0.2 acres square. It has access of 4 metres wide to a main road and is in an allowed development area within our village. When we purchased the house 5 years ago we were told that it was prime development. We didn't develop it as we wanted to stay in our home and wanted a huge garden.

We are now working with an architect to put plans together for 2 or possibly 3 detached 3/4 bed houses. We live an hours commute from the City of London and the land would be worth over £300k. It would clear our mortgage and would still leave our home with a large garden so would not reduce our house value much at all.

We could then sell up, have a bigger house with half the mortage. No brainer really.

Silly neighbours have forced our hand.

Love it!

I feel sorry for the other neighbours who did absolutely nothing to piss you off.

Get planning, sell the land and move to a nice big house somewhere else by all means: it makes good financial sense. However, I find the gleeful people gloating about the effect on the Nasty Neighbours rather unpleasant.

You sometimes need to pay for pre-application advice now Pixie - the cost depends on the local authority.

If I was proposing 3 - 4 houses I would not be putting a pavement in - I would be making it a private drive... you do need to be able to pass two vehicles but you shouldn't need it too wide. Visibility spays will be required - whether that will be easy depends upon the road layout..

Oh yes - linky please

I read and commented on the original thread and just want to say , Well done, I hope it works out for you

Best update ever. Remind me never to cross you, op!

Go you!

Can you build a large penguin statue in your garden?

"I never commented on your last thread but I thought you were a mug to replace the tree.

I've changed my mind."

^^ this!

must be the week for getting one over on the neighbours. Really pleased that you have a way to really wind up these awful people.

I posted under a previous user name about my awful neighbour who hopped over my fence when I was out and literally chopped a tree in my garden IN HALF. It wasn't overhanging her garden, but leaves blew up from time to time and cluttered up her zen garden. She also squirted industrial strength poison over the fence and killed everything on the boundary but claimed "the wind blew it" over a 6 foot fence we moved away and left the cow and her poison to themselves. DH walked past her house the other day and found her whinging that her extension on her house is riddled with damp and has to be entirely demolished and rebuilt. Couldn't happen to a nicer person.

It's almost as good as the parking bollards on the Isle of Wight thread!

Fantastic revenge. Please let us know further updates.

original thread

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2015108-Neighbour-asking-for-unreasonable-amount-towards-a-tree?pg=3

This, penguin bollards, and FYFest. Best threads ever.

I love a happy ending.

Thanks woodmouse
rouge, feel free to link

The visability isn't an issue. There is a large tree which is on our land, no tree preservation order, that can be cut down. This would open up visability.

There is easily enough land to build two 4 bed detached houses; possibly 3.

It will take quite a while. We need to get an architect, see the Duty Planning Officer, make plans and go through planning to get permission. Then we have to sell the land. This could take a year.

I feel sad. It wasn't our intention when we bought our house. I wanted a large garden that I could grow fruit and veg. However, I feel so differently now that the neighbours have screwed us.

My friend said that the neighbours are happy that they won the battle. They didn't realise they would lose the war!

Just read the first thread.

Really really really hope the revenge works op. Keep us posted?

Will you just sell the land with planning permission op or can you take out a building mortgage, build them and sell them?

My friend said that the neighbours are happy that they won the battle. They didn't realise they would lose the war!

well I wouldn't count your chickens just yet, It is not all that straightforward to get PP to build in your garden!

'It will take quite a while. We need to get an architect'
You said in your Op you were already working with an architect?

As someone who fought against (and won) a similar development in our neighbours garden, I also feel sorry for your other neighbours who have done nothing wrong but may end up with their own properties blighted by this development. But do enjoy your 'winning of the war' (your planning permission is not granted yet- you don't know what grounds the neighbours have for complaint yet!- my neighbour thought he had a done deal too!)

My friend said that the neighbours are happy that they won the battle. They didn't realise they would lose the war!

The other neighbours probably didn't think they would be casualties in your war.

Like I say, it makes absolute sense to do it and I don't blame you one bit but talk of "great revenge" is crap. It's not a great revenge as it affects other, innocent parties.

What intitgran just wrote ^ ... I was once married to a property developer. One can get a SHITLOAD of aggro from neighbours over obtaining planning permission. Still, wishing OP all the best.

Loving this!!!