neighbours cutting down trees...completely annoyed

[Stephen99]

grrrrrrrr

just returned from 3 days super camping with nippers to find that behind us, 2 trees are in the process of being chopped down.

to be fair, i've always thought they must block a certain amount of light from the rear neighbours's houses, but it's bleeping criminal to chop down decades old trees in their early summer pomp. doesn't affect us from ground level but from children's room and loft conversion it makes it less private and just less nice in general.

this is the latest in tree trimming/general foiliage cutting that has made all our back gardens that little less private over the past year...its still a super garden area, but am annoyed.

in fact, am still annoyed from when the new neighbours behind my mum chopped down a tree that was there for all of my childhood...and that happened about 15 years ago.

and am still annoyed from when not long after we moved into this house (2004) a ginourmous tree that came into leaf the very week or our little girl's birth was felled a few weeks later.

i guess i just like trees too much.

tree vandals. grrrrrr again.

and don't get me started on the architectural vandals who destroyed the pleasant 1930s front door and surround/porchy thing in the slighlty bigger house at the end of my mum's road a few years ago.

freakin pvc plastic philistines

still, never mind about that, i can hear the trees being destroyed as i type....

I get very upset about trees beign cut down as well. My Mum has a beautiful old oak tree in her back garden and her neighbours asked her to cut it down - they got very arsey when she refused, it doesn't actually block a lot of light from their garden

I cried when I saw a tree had fallen down in gales a couple of years ago

I'm with you, mate. It always breaks my heart to see mature trees chopped down.

Are you in a conservation area? If so they need permission to chop down trees.

I know what you mean. In one flat I lived in (in a conservation area) I called the council pretty much in tears when a beautiful huge oak was being butchered pruned only to be told that it was the council doing it!

Still upsets me to think about it.

I have two oak trees in my garden that I would LOVE to chop down

bloody things drop a million quazillion leaves all over the garden every autumn

[sucks teeth]

Where do you live? Some trees are protected by law and can't be chopped down without planning permission.

Might be worth checking with your local council

I do sympathise, but we were forced to have two huge old willows cut back radically to 8ft tall trunks only, because they hadn't been pollarded for 50 years, the old wood is very brittle and huge branches were overhanging a footpath in the other side of our fence. Massive butchery or squash pedestrian / buggy and get sued .

Your neighbours do sound a bit more like the "got to keep it all tidy looking" types.

also before you get cross, make sure they weren't diseased first

they may have been

Perhaps you need to speak to your neighbours before doing anything. We moved into a house about 15 years ago, that had some beautiful mature trees lining the bottom of the garden. It wasn't until we'd been there a few months that we realised that, although they looked fine they were all diseased and the lot had to come down.

they may ahve been causing subsidence. The trees in our street are butchered lopped every other year becasue of this.

I got the shock of my life when I returned from a year abroad post-uni, to find that every single tree along my parents' street - that's half a mile of 80-100year old trees - had been cut back to the trunk or a couple of branches. I don't remember that ever having been done in the 20y or so we had lived there. But, you know what? Within 5y you couldn't tell it had been done. The trees were back to their former glory. It's been done 2 or 3 times in the 20y or so since then, but the council don't do the whole street in one go, so it doesn't look quite so dreadful.

Trees need maintenance. Even if it can look horrific for a while.

OTOH, I, too, still remember when the glorious chestnut on our corner was felled. There didn't appear to be anything wrong with it. I suspect it was removed because of sightlines at the junction. Removing the stump years later, and paving over, seemed somehow to add insult to injury.

i'd thought about the planning permission thing...someone told me about it when the last big tree was chopped in 04.

but its too late now, isn't it?

not sure what type of trees they were...trucks about 40 cm thick by the look of it, and about 4/5 meters high. quite wide and roundy shaped...why couldn't they have just pruned them a bit?

not in a conservation area, just really nice and verdant. less so now and it just annoys me that i can see the neighbours houses more than i used to be able to to...30/40 metres away...i might parade round in front of the windows naked for a while to teach them the value of privacy! that'll learn' em!

brilliant..they've chopped down a tall but fairly thin pine conifer tree whilst i was away over the weekend.

we all now have a fine view of each others' gardens.

absolutely feckin splendid.

I a neighbour who I used to live next door to chopped down a lovely huge tree that I had grown up with. In fact it was about 15 years ago too and I cried. Just looked at your profile have you always lived in South Liverpool? If so it may have been the same tree!

Are they chopping them down or crown lifting, pruning, dead wooding or lopping? All of these processes look very brutal at first but in the long run they benefit the health and life of the tree not to mention the safety of those that live around or under them.

i dont give a feck about the tree's feelings! we used to have more privacy!

joking (slightly!) i love trees, they're gorgeous...these idiots are chopping them down just to let three more photons into their dining rooms or whatever...grrrrr.

peasants.

...it only affects views from the nippers' bedroom and the loft conversion. and we're moving anyway.

i'm just enjoying our first night of wireless...

they could have made one of those nice owl/goblin wood sculptures from the stumps, but they didn't even do that...grrrrrrr

this really has got to me...why the feck would you disturb our lovely gardens?????!!!!!! aaaaaarrrrgggghhhh!

This happened to our garden a couple of years ago and it really upset me. They only chopped down horrid leylandii, but our garden went from being a secluded little patch to a bit of grass in the middle of a housing estate. To make matters worse, the people at the bottom of the garden have a security light that shines right into our kitchen.

We have since planted 4 more fast growing (but deciduous) trees.

I wish my neighbours would chop down one of their trees. It's in shocking condition, and I eye it warily every time there is a high wind...

You need to read a book called "Who moved my cheese?".

It will help you come to terms with change.

Sorry but

People are obsessed with privacy. I thought that while half-watching one of those property programmes this evening.

'oh we can see people's windows which means they can see us' the woman moaned

lol at cheese book.

you're right, i am bonkers. (but not on this issue! hee hee.)

pointy dog obviously lives in a hippy commune. fine if you're into that kind of thing.

no I live in a standard housing estate where you can see lots of houses round about you