Neighbours chopped down their own trees but

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they are now unhappy with the fact they can see the stuff stored down the side of my garage.

So they’ve moved all the stuff to the back of my garage. Without asking me.

I can now see their hideous 1970’s house whereas before I could see fir trees in which the Goldcrests gathered.

I’m toying with what I can put down the side of my garage. What about one of those blow up bendy balloon men they have outside some businesses? I wouldn’t be able to see it.

If you establish they were actually your trees can you make a civil claim for damages (like for like replacements) for them? Is there a law that covers that does anyone know?

My neighbour over the back had our tree cut right back. It had a TPO on it. Man came round and said never mind it will grow back!

I could throw in a 10 ft inflatable stack of pumpkins that lights up for a seasonal look

Hire a graffiti artist to paint a scene including a dump and red eyed rats

I don't mean to be mean - but "first world problems"
Sometimes just accept what is done is done for the peace of all concerned.
Unless: you want this to become an ongoing tit-for-tat...
Gradually escalting until someone threatens legal action...
Chops down a bush or breaks a fence pannel...
Then the shouting starts... Then neighbours take sides.
You haven't lost ...they haven't won...
If you are both staying put it is not worth the ongoing hassle
If you are moving any time soon.. you don't want "bad neighbour reports"
This may be the start of a tidy up.. Trees gone, maybe a new fence / hedge
You need to be still talking to each other for anything to be sorted.
You got a bit offended... you could try to start a "look, I don't want to fall out" conversation - see how that goes.
Otherwise, back to tit-for-tat but I'm sure you have better things to get bothered about, only 69 day to Christmas, don't forget the card for the neighbours!

So basically, you have a bucket of horse shit and some bits of horsey things that you no longer use as you don’t have horses. You clearly don’t want to see all this crap in your own garden so you hide it out of sight on their side of the garage.

Now they have cut down their trees they have to look at all your junk. They probably didn’t know it was there before, but now they do.

sounds like you need a trip to the local tip. I wouldn’t be falling out with neighbours over a pile of crap I don’t even need.

I was going to say put some of these gnombes on your garage roof with their arses facing said neighbours. But if you ever grow a bush. 🤣🤣🤣

Forgot to add pics.

Pop in some really ugly white picket garden edging (very short and tacky) just inside your property line. A nice sign hung up on the shed with a map maybe that shows your properties boundaries.

I would ascertain your correct property line and mark it.
I would thump in steel pickets just inside the line and afix old corrigated iron as a fence then congregate your precious horse poo and pony stuff collection behind that.
If they complain tell them that, as a compromise, they can paint your old iron any colour they like.

Not at all, it's like that because the growth of other plants has prevented light reaching the green cells of the conifer, so that impacted area has died off. Other plants respond to this sort of thing by reducing the amount of growth on the affected side, so if the more hefty plant is removed, you find the affected plant has fewer, more spindly twiggy growth where it was crowded.

With other types of plant, if the removal of the one that's blocking the light is removed, the affected one might put some effort in and grow new leaves on the bare side. Plants like conifers don't respond in this way, they can't reshoot from old wood.

They went onto your property and moved things… I’d say to put it all back and tell them that you’ll call the police if they access your property again. I’d also say to put up a camera that looks onto your land that will let you know if there’s a trespass and film it.

One of the bins I moved has now blown over in the wind. I’ve just seen them all go out so I’m going to pop out and see how the land lies.

To be honest I’m finding it all a bit stressful and may let sleeping dogs lie.

I wouldn't make neighbours look at a view of my rubbish. It should be out of their view. It doesn't matter that their trees used to disguise it. Now they don't.

I’m not sure of this heavy focus on the boundary line, it’s often hard to tell exactly from deeds but more than that it’s done now and the op doesn’t sound like she wants to go to court over the trees.

Give over. I’m not changing my garden because they chose to change theirs.

Reminds me of the chap (their father) when his wife was ill. He wanted us to change the drive so that the ambulance could easily reverse once it had driven up the drive, which would have cost us money, when he could have altered his driveway/garden to enable the ambulance to turn round in front of his house.

This exactly.

Nobody wants to see their neighbours rubbish.

If my neighbours kept a bucket of fermenting shit next to my boundary fence I would be turning it upside down and then I would pile all their other crap on top of it.

They're land grabbing with a view to sell. It's nothing more complex than that

Absolutely @Fissssh

Land grabbing what, a few inches?

Now the trees aren't there it's a clean boundary from their perspective. People really can be that petty.

And, if the dying tree were removed that's more land they could take... Move the fence on the right a bit because "oh dear bad weather it's all fallen down..."

Not sure if it has been said but I wonder if they moved it to avoid damage when cutting g the trees down?

That can be legal, depends on what the TPO says.... some are no trimming etc others can allow.

As for the OP, your neighbour has done you a favour, you can clean your garage gutter now.

I know. Fab to be able to get to the gutter. All nice and tidy.