Bear with me for this I'll try and keep as succinct as possible!
Bought the house in February this year, our garden backs onto an allotment with clear boundary. We rent the plots behind our garden. To the left is a large area of land owned by a local family that have lots of land in the area. Many of the houses in the road back onto this.
Most of the trees on the border ( in the land) have TPOs on them. One large oak tree has concerned me when we moved due to its size and proximity and overhanging on our shed. I did raise this with landowner at the time and provided pictures.
Today several huge branches have come down effectively splitting the tree in half, they've come down on our shed,fence, trampoline and into our garden and allotment causing damage.
The landowner came round to look and advised that he doesn't own the 6ft triangle that this tree is on! We've since purchased Land registry records and title and he is correct. Bizarrely one small triangle of land where the tree sits is owned by someone who moved to Australia in 1960's and has been uncontactable since.
Our insurance company is calling us tomorrow but advised today we need to contact the owner ( of which is going to be near if not impossible). Where do we stand with this? The damage and cost of safely removing the branches is going to be huge. Not to mention the fact the tree is now very unstable so we will need to apply to the parish council to have the TPO lifted so it can be removed, but we can't foot the cost for this too!
Sorry if this is all a bit of a jumble, but would appreciate any similar stories/advice.