Neighbours have chopped our tree down

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More of a wwyd as know I'm not being unreasonable...neighbour in terrace next to ours have chopped our tree down! It's clearly on our driveway and not theirs. Speechless!

Thanks for the tip.

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So he couldn't chop his tree so he decided to chop yours?! How's that make sense in his head.

And I know people keep saying it's a bush, but surely it's just a young tree? Not to mention I used to have a bush (probably some sort of weed) with bright purple flowers which I loved and would've been furious if someone had cut it down.

Oh dear I have to say I’m so sorry this has happened to your tree but I wish I was brave enough to do that to a tree and a set of Laylandii at the bottom of our gardens. Come the summer they’re will be no sun for 2 hours in the morning and my neighbour will have no sun all day !!
Having trees in London is fabulous until the start blocking others sun light. Wouldn’t it be great if everybody just thought for a bit, “Is this tree getting a bit to large”?
We’ll be asking if it’s possible for these trees to be cut and cross our fingers they do so!
Ask for a new tree. I think the have to oblige !
Best of luck.

What a CF

Hope all goes well at your scan OP.

Take them to Court. If you own your property what they have done is trespassed and damaged your property. My neighbour took my employer to Court for unlawfully removing her hedge. She won 15k

And I know people keep saying it's a bush, but surely it's just a young tree? Very roughly, a tree has a single trunk, a bush has several "trunks" from close to the ground. No matter how old a bush gets, it doesn't jettison all the "spare" trunks and develop just one into a solid supporting trunk. So a bush isn't just a young tree.

In this case, the bush has been identified as a Photinia. You can train this into a small "tree", but its normally grown as a bush, as this one was, from the view of its several cut-off trunks.

Total cf