Neighbours overhanging trees

tiny timy

Hi all, posted this in the Garden section but thinking that maybe this is more the appropiate area for it.

My Neighbours have numerous trees whos branches are growing over their fence onto a roadway that i use to travel on both to and from my home. Am i entitled to cut down the overhanging branches and throw them back over their fence onto their property or is there a certain way of dealing with this?

Just out of interest, does it matter if its a public or private road if you want to carry out this work?
Thanks

Kevtherev

tiny timy wrote: »

Hi all, posted this in the Garden section but thinking that maybe this is more the appropiate area for it.

My Neighbours have numerous trees whos branches are growing over their fence onto a roadway that i use to travel on both to and from my home. Am i entitled to cut down the overhanging branches and throw them back over their fence onto their property or is there a certain way of dealing with this?

Just out of interest, does it matter if its a public or private road if you want to carry out this work?
Thanks

I would imagine if it's a public road you should contact the council. If it's your own personal driveway and the neighbour won't prune them then you can as long as you drop the branches back over their wall.

tiny timy

Kevtherev wrote: »

I would imagine if it's a public road you should contact the council. If it's your own personal driveway and the neighbour won't prune them then you can as long as you drop the branches back over their wall.

Thanks Kevtherev

Victor

Talk to neighbour!

tiny timy

Victor wrote: »

Talk to neighbour!

done that,thats why i here!

seagull

You are entitled to cut back branches overhanging your property. You have no right to cut back branches overhanging public property.

If you do cut back the branches of your neighbour's tree, you then have to offer them to your neighbour. They are not obliged to take them.

intbn

seagull wrote: »

You are entitled to cut back branches overhanging your property. You have no right to cut back branches overhanging public property.

If you do cut back the branches of your neighbour's tree, you then have to offer them to your neighbour. They are not obliged to take them.

and if you do through them back over the wall, be sure they havn't got their ferrari parked behind the wall!:D

i recall a thread on here of someone saying that if by improperly pruning the tree you kill it then you're liable to be sued by your neighbor for damages!:rolleyes:

and if my memory serves me well, i remember a story on here of a woman who said she'd recently moved and had a big garden with a long row of trees that hung onto a lane, along came a friend of the next door neighbor and cut the lot down to the height of a hedge(and took the cutting with em) because the neighbor sick of the sight of them when driving in and out every day, some NECK BHAY!!

BeerSteakBirds

can a neighbour legally throw a pile of blown leaves over a back wall into the garden of the owner of the tree and can a neighbour legally throw them back ?

moon_man

you can complain the local authority , they will send your neighbour a hedge notice , he will ignore it and the local authority will do nothing about it , especially if its a lane type road that few people use

you can complain to the guards , they will tell you its a civil matter , unless of course you have pull with the guards and then the local branch will be told to do something about it

if a public highway ( a local authority lane is still a public highway ) is being blocked by overgrown trees , you are entitled to breast back the hedge within reason but you are not allowed to chop down the trees , if your neighbour has pull with the guards , be carefull , you could find yourself summonses for damaging trees which is what happened to a relative of mine , they didnt even ask the local contractor to cut the neighbours hedges , contractor mistakenly done it , guy was a troublemaker who had friends high up in the force , guards arrested my relative and summonsed him , case was dropped at the last minute

Hoboo

BeerSteakBirds wrote: »

can a neighbour legally throw a pile of blown leaves over a back wall into the garden of the owner of the tree and can a neighbour legally throw them back ?

We could have great craic if we lived next door, throwin them back and forth, stuffin them into letter boxes, sending them by DHL

sandrahug

the sooner the better the government brings into law something to protect the other people who live beside these selfish tree hugging b,,star,,ds my front garden should have a lovely view of the dublin mountains but cant see a stone of the mountain due to trees blocking my view,, then i have the back garden that hasnt seen the full light of day because of my neighbours trees arrrgh,,,, but can i add that there side to the view to dublin mountains have no trees blocking them, its just on my side,, and this person who is my neighbour isnt even there halve the time.

BeerSteakBirds

sandrahug wrote: »

the sooner the better the government brings into law something to protect the other people who live beside these selfish tree hugging b,,star,,ds my front garden should have a lovely view of the dublin mountains but cant see a stone of the mountain due to trees blocking my view,, then i have the back garden that hasnt seen the full light of day because of my neighbours trees arrrgh,,,, but can i add that there side to the view to dublin mountains have no trees blocking them, its just on my side,, and this person who is my neighbour isnt even there halve the time.

were the trees there before you moved in ? Just asking because I dont think someone should willingly move into a new dwelling and then start harassing the neighbour to cut down his trees which have been there for decades... for example....