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!

We haven't been here long and already I am fantasising about chopping them down . We are trying to psyche ourselves up to have the 'conversation' but dread them refusing. It is really stressing me out. I can't understand why someone would plant Yew trees on a fence line

I can't understand why you bought the house in the first place. Presumably, knowing full well that the trees were going to be an issue.

Could you knock and say
‘Would you look at that. Someone has cut down our tree. What kind of shit would do that’.

I would deffo report to police immediately.

Take photos. Do you have photos of tree before the removal?

What bastards! I would want it replaced with similar size tree asap, at their expense.

We wanted to chop down one of our neighbours trees as it was causing our conservatory to be in shade in the afternoon and we were about to put the house on the market. I checked how much it would cost to chop and then spoke to the neighbour offering to pay the tree surgeon's fee and for neighbour to keep the chopped wood. He was delighted as he had plenty of trees and was happy to be getting a good load of ready chopped wood for his 2 wood burning stoves. I enjoyed the conservatory for another year before we finally sold and moved.

Yew is a fairly common hedging plant. It can be kept compact if regularly trimmed.

Mycat - but why should you pay to have the tree chopped down? Surely it's his responsibility to do so?

Rottnest - stupidly we didn't view the house ourselves, we got someone to do it on our behalf, and I didn't notice it myself until we went out in the better weather. Yes, I know it was bloody stupid but there were mitigating circumstances.

They don't trim it though and it's becoming huge . They suck up all the nutrients in the soil too.

SevenSeas can you offer to trim it?

Have you spoken to them?

I thought yews are slow-growing? Mind you, if you think they devastate the soil, I raise you leylandii - decimated a collection of species rhododendrons and magnolia that had been in situ 50 years

How do you know it was the neighbour?

I see the sofa solicitors have posted.small claims court.no.thats for monies owed
I’m surprised no ones rocked up shouting change the locks or other legal nuggets
Lesson being,people post any ole rubbish on mn authoritatively passing it off as fact

Picture!

. Apologies for the me-rail.

Are you sure it's yours on the deeds, OP? (Recent experience of bitter neighbour relations - they sent a solicitor's letter: it was our land all along - though no trees were harmed! ) If it is, then knock on the door, affect complete benign bafflement, and say that they seem to have cut your tree down, and that you are wondering why...

‘Log’ it with the police!

Neighbours are tenants who have lived there about a year and we have an amicable relationship with them, basic chit chat etc. They mentioned they were going to do some work to their front such as removing bin store etc. They knocked on the door to ask if we had any room in our garden recycling...turns out this would have been for some of our tree!!! Tree was already here when we bought the property.

Have a spa day and get highlights done to get over the stress

I can't see the picture :(

So what are you going to do? Call their landlord?call police?contact tenants?

Where's the picture OP?

Omg that’s worse-they rent their property so don’t even have a vested long term interest!!

Make them replace it. That's out of order.

Isn't it illegal to cut down a tree during bird nesting season?

Can’t see the picture!