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Yeah, they are entitled to trim whatever sits over their boundary.
Sounds like they might want it gone though?
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Although you may still need permission from the council if there's a TPO on the tree of you're in a conservation area.
https://www.gov.uk/how-to-resolve-neighbour-disputes/high-hedges-trees-and-boundaries
Also doing it without asking first can easily lead to problems between neighbours (this happened to our neighbours and their neighbours on the other side).
We had a holly tree overhanging our garden and we agreed to pay half of the cost of getting it chopped down (with council permission as we're in a conservation area) as I hated the prickly leaves it shat all over the grass/beds in our garden.
Greenbank
people in the property at the back of ours have started emailing about the tree which sits between my neighbour's and our garden, asking us to get it trimmed.
in all honesty, i'm not that keen on the tree - it's a self sown ash and may well eventually succumb to ash die back, but otoh i'm not in a massive hurry to do anything with it either.
my neighbours like the tree which is why i have not either pruned or got rid of it previously. should I just write back to the people behind as say they are welcome to cut it back from their garden if they'd like to? It's not really clear whether the tree is more in my neighbours garden or more in mine.