We got a letter today from a neighbour whose garden borders ours at the back. He has requested that we significantly reduce our “seriously oversized”laurel shrub, because it overshadows his pear tree. He wishes we trimmed it to the height of the pear tree. He sent a letter last year too with the same request, and also to remove the ivy from the wall. We moved in a year and a half ago and we have never met him. He never rings the doorbell, just puts the letters through the door. We removed the ivy, because incidentally it had been planned anyway before his letter and the gardener did it the following week. However, I have no intention to reduce the shrub, I actually let it grow, but make sure the branches don’t overhang into his garden. It gives us shade and privacy, especially from somebody’s extension’s window further back. The shrub is maybe 3, 5 m tall (the boundary wall is 2 m tall). The thing is that all the houses around, including mine and his, are very tall and obviously they cast shade so I don’t understand why he thinks it’s the shrub! His garden is also long, we share maybe one third of his wall. The shrub is planted at the end of our west facing wall, so east facing for him.
Does he have a point, or am I right?