Epic WTF

^ This.

you should technically offer the owner of the bush(es) the stuff you cut

I've never had the guts to do that as it feels so petty.

Plus we have big green waste bins, so it's not like I have to worry about disposal. If I had to take it to the skip it might be difficult I guess.

If they don’t want it it’s up to you to get rid of it.

You're within your rights to just hoik it over into their garden, if you're feeling punchy enough.

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Or maybe not. So many shonky websites with differing opinions.

I did this.

"Hi Mr cake. Did you chop down our hedge and Chuck it over the fence"

"Yeh"

"Oh. Ok"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-57598101

Hope it goes well, but hope that you just caught them on a bad day or two.

PS House warming invite/bush killing party?

From memory the easiest thing is to return anything overhanging your boundary, as it technically isn't yours and can give rise to a civil case. Yep, that is one dispute that made my company, another surveyor, a couple of solicitors and barristers alot of money. Yes Barristers, it got that far.

You can not charge them for cutting the overhang, unless you get quotes and give them the opportunity to do the work or have someone to do the work. Anyone doing the work must have liability insurance etc.

Also can set a precedent that yoou are expected to do that in the future.

When neighbours go to war.

I think you can only eat any berries that fall on your land and not pick and eat them, mind you can't see many apples lol

Had war with our last neighbours and had to move, mind you ended up in a better location :)

Mamnick at it again:

https://road.cc/content/news/cycling-live-blog-11-january-2022-289427#live-blog-item-30791

The road can be private and council owned but as an entity. See council housing estates that are private but owned by the Council. Unadopted roads are just roads that are not under the highways act. There are unadopted roads in Newham and Lambeth, that I know of, that are unadopted roads but the council maintain and the council highways do the parking enforcement.

But private and unadopted with council highways doing the parking enforcement maybe something out of the norm as to why.

That was the time that it cost you money to have a car scrapped so cars got dumped. Was it you that collected my XM...you bastard ;)

That's going to lead to tensions for sure.

Locking a bike to the gate?

Would absolutely escalate matters but I wasn’t remotely serious.

Just the day 2 day school run stuff, but yeah locking bikes to their gates too.

Direct access to the school would be from another road but yes, the footpath access wouldn’t help

I once got a telling off from the po-po when they saw me picking and eating blackberries that were hanging over a fence onto the street.
the property was derelict and I'd only picked a handful as I was walking past, so not like I'd gone and filled a tub or anything.
I thought they were joking and even offered them some!

You’re absolutely not.

Read my comment. You can offer it, but they don’t have to accept it. If they don’t want it it’s yours to deal with. Returning it without their agreement can leave you liable to action, which will be far more costly than taking it to the tip.

Check out tree law cases in places like Oregon that mandate min. triple damages. People quite literally lose their houses because they cut down a tree that wasn’t theirs.

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My first job out of school was removing and destroying abandoned vehicles for Lewisham council.

We desperately need you back in the game, and in Greenwich. One final heist!

Read your comment, and was just chatting from experiences when neighbours go to war.

Not sure that you can keep it (deprive the owner) and the neighbour can't accept it. Not sure if things have changed legally. Then the returning their items is a civil matter not criminal. It is not fly tipping. But then would the 'leylandii law' come in to play with the anti social behaviour act?

Also now you have bins for different things and the local authority may not collect a bin with garden refuse in it. Some may charge for garden waste taken to the tip. Know some councils were discussing charging for that, as they were charging for garden refuse.

Why not have a fire, bonus is if the smoke blows in to the other persons house.

Personally, currently having discussions with a cnut nieghbour who's tree fell in to my garden and they has left the tree and just put fencing around the broken stump. Tempted to move the boundry the 30cm the whole length of the garden.

Holy fuck, the comments.

https://twitter.com/RosieisaHolt/status/1480932023929823244

US tree laws are interesting as different states do different things. From hazy memory, in urban areas the liability if a tree falls on someone and owner having to prove that the tree was inspected and the monies people sue for.

the property was derelict and I'd only picked a handful as I was walking past, so not like I'd gone and filled a tub or anything.

Mainland Europe; if the fruit is in a public space, you pretty much expect it to be picked and eaten. I've got a friend here who had some apple trees and the apples hanging over the footpath weren't being picked. Came home to find some old bloke filling a bag with what he could reach. Considered fair game.

That’s my fence, there is a 1m wide path behind it then the Neighbour’s fence. Their cherry tree is almost touching it.
It’s now about 10m high, to the south so blocks light and it’s branches stick 3-4m into my garden.
It’s a Lambeth Council property and their website says the tenant is responsible for the garden. I’m pretty sure the current tenant didn’t plant it.
How should I proceed?
If I prune it will it be unstable it already has some dead branches? If I kill it am I liable?

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We desperately need you back in the game, and in Greenwich. One final heist!

Id reform the band for you but I ended up being fired so I'm not sure they'd see me as part of the dream team.