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 know this is an old post but I'm interested in your views. As mentioned above, the OP was annoyed because her privacy had been taken away. After all, her neighbour decided to cut down trees on their property - so my question is, does the owner of the trees have any rights? Should their wants and wishes be taken into consideration, or should th tree people keep the trees even if they make them unhappy or they are not wanted ... Its a bigger question really so people do things which other people want just to make them happy or should people be able to do what makes them happy?

I'm with Stephen99. I love trees and nature, and surely it makes our environments nicer to live in?
So many people around us have no front gardens, all block paved, and now doing it in their back gardens too?
When we walk in our local area, the traffic fumes are horrendous. Neighbours have artificial grass and gravel?
Views have dramatically changed from trees, to only more houses?

Our next door neighbour had a beautiful yew tree, and a white flowering shrub. It gave us privacy from her windows, but also was used by so many birds, and a few squirrels.
I think the tree was possibly 100 years old, judging by the width of it's trunk.
Yesterday, with no warning or mention, some young guys turned up with a chainsaw, and the beautiful yew, and pretty flowering large shrub have gone.

Last year was very bad for me, I've been really upset and suffering with depression, and as dramatic as it sounds, the tree and shrub being destroyed yesterday, had me in tears very quickly. There was no real reason for their loss.
The neighbour doesn't look after their garden at all, and these were the only beautiful things to see in the garden.
Sometimes being in the garden surrounded by nature, can really lift sadness, and give some peace, as I found last year when overwhelmed.
I know people can do what they want in their own gardens, but yes, it does make a huge difference sometimes to the people around them.

Has your loft conversion got one of those sheds on the roof rather than velux? If so you've impinge on your neighbours' privacy by additional overlooking.
We all live in our homes and do what we do to make them work for us

We have 2 cooking apple trees, a plum tree and a cherry tree at bottom of our garden. Neighbour complains if an occasional apple or plum falls in her garden. I try to.pick ones near her side of garden first and have offered her some of the fruit all to no avail. She still wants apple and plum tree cut back a lot. I told her no. Apple tree can have a little trim after fruit finished, definately not in July. I have got bamboo, a Rowan and conifers too. I keep them trimmed back.

I hope the op is over it by now given that it was 14 years ago.

Yes, it was an old post, but has been added to not long ago
I was born and lived in London, and we seemed to have more green space there than in the town we now live in?

On Tuesday, so the hottest day ever my idiot neighbour had every single tree - about 10 - in his garden cut down. They gave such lovely shade and protected all the wildlife in our gardens. But apparently the shade was killing his grass, nothing to do with it barely raining here for 4 months and it’s being super hot the last 2 weeks. I’m still fuming.

I concur, he's an idiot, we're supposed to be planting trees, not destroying them. Grass grows back after droughts, and the trees are needed by our wildlife.
The blackbirds and squirrels used to eat the yew berries, and the yew gave the smaller birds shelter in bad weather, and protection from the red kite which hover over our garden.

There was a fascinating Judy Dench documentary a few years ago about trees. Yew trees can live for 2000 or more years, absolutely amazing. Only wish they could fight back when attacked with chainsaws!!