Neighbour cutting down our trees.

[MimsyFluff]

We bought our house three years ago, at the end of our garden we have a path to our allotment and next to my allotment is pigeon man he has 4 huge sheds full of them. He has offered to buy the allotment repeatable till I told him we would never sell it. We are turning it into a garden, play area and fruit orchard.

Last year we planted three fruit trees, he was saying we couldn't plant trees because his pigeons would go in them, I told him we would be planting the trees he started shouting and swearing at me in front of the DC (2,5 and 7 at the time)! So I changed the layout and planted two trees closer to his side (3 meters) because the play area was going to be that end so moved the orchard to his end.

We went down yesterday evening to mow it and trim the hedge. Fruit trees are fine but his been in and cut down three saplings

I hate leylandii house up the road has them they are trimmed once a year so covers 80% of the path half the year. I mow my lawn every few days kids pay out loads and dog pooper scooper doesn't like long grass! so would be trimmed often but he can't live forever so probably kick my self for planting them so it'll be a fence and screen. Kids area is as far away from the pigeons as it can get they are kept in his garden.

Won't put up the paint at the top of the fences wouldn't be fair to cats till they poop in the sand pit or birds. Neighbours find dead cats often they think he poisons them but it could be failed alien autopsies so who knows

I've decided to do nothing for now but to set up the gopro for when I plant the trees because he'll go crazy at the thought of new trees, start swearing and shouting and I'll have it all on tape to show the police if i go now it'll be my word against his.

We had an old appears tree at our last house it was lovely

If people think he is killing their pets surely he's had a visit from the police?! Tbh if he's happy to kill cats I can't see him caring about trees or respecting your property.

Absolutely go to the police, hopefully he is already known to them and they will take more action than for a first time report.

What if he poisons the aliens?! He could start an intergalactic war!

If the neighbours think the cats arr poisoned they should have the corpses examined. Very unfair to throw accusations around when it isn't even certain it was poison.

It's an excellent diagram OP. I suggest high fence panels topped with anti climb paint.

Nothing useful to add but had to stop by and say that is the best diagram I've ever seen!

The first one in case of any confusion! Just noticed the second now. It's good but the first one should win an award

I think you should have a chat with the police now so you can illustrate how the problem is developing rather than waiting until its got really bad.

Do you mean an allotment? Or just a fruit/veg area in a garden?

You could do the fences with the anti climb paint one and leave little gaps at random places around the bottom of the fence for cats to go through, or lots of cat flaps.

You should probably consider putting anti-pigeon spikes on your fences - might even help reduce any cat problems as s bonus!

Friend had to put th3m

Sorry, fat finger problems!

Friend had to put them on the crossbar of her swing set to keep the seats clean.