Right - more info requested please!
I have a particularly unpleasant neighbour who has a vegetable garden that backs onto to a field I own. This field has a nice line of sycamore trees that provide a very good screen and there is a ditch that I own between these trees and his veg patch.
My neighbour has sent me a letter complaining that they are now too tall and 'gloomy' and that his fruit trees (particulary the Laxton Beauty it would appear) are suffering from a lack of light. His veg patch is across the lane from his house and in no way do the trees pose a threat to hip property.
His letter goes on to graciously permit me to let my gardener have access (after having secured prior permission from his as to an acceptable time) to assess the work and then carry it out........
This, incidentally, is also the neighbour that erected iron girders that border the lane accessing my farm, in an attempt to prevent the milk tanker getting to this farm when it was a dairy farm prior to us purchasing it. My predecessors had to arrange for another access to the farm to be made, as the tankers couldnt collect the milk....
And in 2005, when we had the barn fire, the self-same girders prevented access by Taunton's newly purchased all-singing, all dancing-fire truck to the scene.
So, fellow forumites, my question is, do I have to get my bush trimmed (
) ? Or can I tell him to stuff his Laxton Beauty apple tree where the sun don't shine???
I have a particularly unpleasant neighbour who has a vegetable garden that backs onto to a field I own. This field has a nice line of sycamore trees that provide a very good screen and there is a ditch that I own between these trees and his veg patch.
My neighbour has sent me a letter complaining that they are now too tall and 'gloomy' and that his fruit trees (particulary the Laxton Beauty it would appear) are suffering from a lack of light. His veg patch is across the lane from his house and in no way do the trees pose a threat to hip property.
His letter goes on to graciously permit me to let my gardener have access (after having secured prior permission from his as to an acceptable time) to assess the work and then carry it out........
This, incidentally, is also the neighbour that erected iron girders that border the lane accessing my farm, in an attempt to prevent the milk tanker getting to this farm when it was a dairy farm prior to us purchasing it. My predecessors had to arrange for another access to the farm to be made, as the tankers couldnt collect the milk....
And in 2005, when we had the barn fire, the self-same girders prevented access by Taunton's newly purchased all-singing, all dancing-fire truck to the scene.
So, fellow forumites, my question is, do I have to get my bush trimmed (
) ? Or can I tell him to stuff his Laxton Beauty apple tree where the sun don't shine???
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