To add to this. Well established trees with tree protection orders are incredibly expensive in both money and time to maintain. This is especially the case when the tree was neglected by the previous owner for decades (ex rental house with overseas owner who pretty much left the letting agent in charge of running the property).
Also, any property that was an ex rental is full of absolute bodge jobs, cowboy builder solutions and requires time, unlimited patience and money to put right. Looking at you letting agent maintenance person who decided the solution to a leak and associated damages was to fix the leak and just stick a layer of lino floor over the kitchen whilst the floorboards and joists were wet. Then when said lino floor was coming up to just shove a laminate floor on top of the lino. Also props for the great idea to "fix" the windows that didn't close properly was to just screw them shut so the tenants couldn't open windows rather than just buy new handles. Also, loved the rag tied round the leaky under bath pipe - really solved the leak problem.