Reply With QuoteFound this from B'ham council, would imagine all council's are the same.
https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/info/2...own%20property.
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Any advice appreciated?
There is a tree at the bottom of a council owned residential property that’s blighting a rental property I’m trying to sell.
It overhangs massively onto my side and restricts light and dumps loads of crap onto my garden and conservatory roof.
Every potential buyer has mentioned it and I lost a sale last week due to it.
I reported it to Dudley Council and they said they’d report it to their “Green Team” and it would be looked at but they couldn’t say when due to workload and lack of staff!
I can trim our side of the border but ludicrously ( I think ) I have to offer the tenant at the house the tree sits at the wood that I get cut off!
If any of you have any legal background or work for a local council could you advise me please?
It seems unfair that the council can blight my house, costing me time and money in reparations and lost buyers and yet not deal with the matter urgently?
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Found this from B'ham council, would imagine all council's are the same.
https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/info/2...own%20property.
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Cheers Lloyd that’s really useful, thank you.Originally Posted by soulman101
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Do what I did - get on with it and get the
F ucker/s down. If you ask for permission or contact the council you are asking for trouble.
Our tree cutter who you know didn’t mess about. The council here are really strict and jobs worths!
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That is more or less what I have always told people. You may prune any part of a tree that is overhanging your boundary. Before doing anything I would contact the Council as landowner of what you intend to do and offer them the cuttings (it is their tree after all). As the B'ham advice says check the tree isn't TPO'd or the tree is in a conservation area. I am a bit out of touch with matters now but I think this is generally correct.
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It’s in a neighbours garden, I can’t enter their garden and chop the bloody thing down you tool!🤡🤣
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You are entitled to chop every branch and twig that infringes on your property! Go for it!
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I know that thanks Einstein! 😏
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What type of tree ? is it Mick, if it's a conifer there are height restrictions on them.
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It’s not a conifer Lloyd, I’m visiting to check tomorrow.
I’d guess it Ash or Elm but I’m sure it doesn’t have a TPO on it.
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