I have finally got my view back!!

[2wd]

Being high up in the the Pennines and living at the top of a hill,when we moved into our home 25 years ago we had the most fantastic panoramic views from our living room window right, across Manchester,Cheshire and over towards Merseyside

Then the neighbours Willow tree just got bigger and bigger until the view all but dissapeared

Although many trees when in full blossom can look good,unkempt they just block out the sun,light and views

Luckily new neighbours moved in a couple of years ago and they gave the tree a "slight trim"..... as in cut it down

Now we have our view back

 

[ColinJ]

I never understood how people got into bitter disputes with neighbours over these things. If they're a problem, surely it's easy enough to kill them, then just deny all responsibility. They might know, but can they prove?

Hmm ...

A mate of mine got into a bitter dispute with a neighbour over a tree, or rather the lack of a tree! My friend bought a house which had a nice front garden with a modest sized tree at the end of it. It was on one of the hillsides above Hebden Bridge with fantastic views across the valley. My friend was looking forward to sitting in the shade of the tree on hot summer afternoons (remember them?) and sipping a glass of wine while reading his paper.

So, the house purchase went through, my pal was handed the keys to the property and arrived to discover that his new neighbour had just taken a chainsaw to the tree and sawn it up for firewood! He tackled the neighbour who calmly told him that he didn't like trees, it was history, so tough - forget about it!

It was the beginning of a lot of trouble between them.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Must be grim when someone grows a tree in front of your cell window!

Yes, I know, I was gutted!!

A house in the road behind me had a disagreement with their next door neighbour for over 20 years so they planted a leylandii hedge. The trees grew so large we could see them over their house and they must have completely obscured the upstairs bedroom window. The neighbours finally moved out and they have now removed them.

Well, we have a bit of a confession to make. When we moved in, our front garden had 4 Aspen trees and 2 of the aforementioned trees, which were little more than bushes at the time. Now, we just let the Leylandii grow without much thought, until 2 or 3 years ago when we decided it was time to get rid of them.
We still have the Aspens, lovely things they are, but when the Leylandii went, it was like night and day...... quite literally!
Thing is, I think it was just us who they were blocking the out the light for.

The Leylandii which was the subject of this thread was at the back of the house, and all 3 of the trees, our 2 and their 1 were taller than the houses.

The only place that I have ever seen them used quite well is in Northern Ireland where there seems to be much more trimming or growing a less vigorous variety where they form neatly clipped hedges.

I hear they are good at absorbing bomb blasts.
Seriously though, I wouldn't have said that any of ours were particularly unrully. Just, BIG!

Fascinating history though - afik, nobody yet knows just how tall they can grow, as none have yet reached full maturity and died of old age!

I strongly suspect that that is only because nobody has ever been able to stand one of the things for long enough!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

enjoy watching your nieghbours and the view

Well, the view it has been obscuring isn't amazingly exciting, but it is a clear view from my upstairs velux windows straight down the path/road behind our (very tiny*) back garden and of all of the adjoining houses. I will be able to spy on my neighbours now, but due to the way our house is, being at a different angle to the rest, they cannot easily spy on us, fools! muhahahaha!!

Now you can understand why they had the tree for so many years!! although, to be fair, I think the tree was there before we moved in.

Now, where did I put those binoculars....


* Our house is set back from the road further than the rest of the houses on our road, meaning we have a large front garden but a very small one at the back. Being so far back, we, of course, overlook the neighbours at the back.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

Hey Leylandi have rights too you know..

 

[Night Train]

I would be happy to grow Leylandii if my land backed onto a motorway or other very busy road. Grown dense enough they will obscure the sight and some of the noise.

Otherwise they can be a bit overwhelming in a domestic garden.


Outside my house just on next door's land there used to be a Rowen that had a TPO on it. The Landlord there arranged for some work to be done that lead to the contractors cutting the roots of the tree. The tree died shortly afterwards and then fell on my driveway. I reported the deliberate killing of the tree to the council but they didn't bother doing anything about it.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I would be happy to grow Leylandii if my land backed onto a motorway or other very busy road.

That would be ok, a great idea actually, just as long as I wasn't a raving petrolhead (which I'm not by the way) and wanted a clear uninterupted view of the road so I could spot the latest cars or whatever these people do.
Our 4 Aspens in the front garden go a bit (albeit not much) to help block out the noise from the road nearby, although, coming to think of it, they are actually much better at shading us from the sun in the mornings.

Grown dense enough they will obscure the sight and some of the noise.

The 2 l*ylandii we had did, but they didn't block the smell and other crap too, they just tried to permanently eclipse the sun instead, so they had to go!

Outside my house just on next door's land there used to be a Rowen that had a TPO on it.

A TPO??!! Did BR know of this?!*

I trust you mean a Tree Preservation Order or some such thing?

The Landlord there arranged for some work to be done that lead to the contractors cutting the roots of the tree. The tree died shortly afterwards and then fell on my driveway. I reported the deliberate killing of the tree to the council but they didn't bother doing anything about it.

I think the roots for our Aspens are ok, but I do have to wonder sometimes!



* TPO - Travelling Post Office and the name given to a lot of the mail train coaches.

 

[dellzeqq]

I never understood how people got into bitter disputes with neighbours over these things. If they're a problem, surely it's easy enough to kill them, then just deny all responsibility. They might know, but can they prove?

somewhere or other there will be a report of a case in which an elderly man went out in to his garden every night and pissed against the fence - slowly killing off the leylandii. He was arrested, tried and sent to the slammer.

found the link http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/focus-hedge-wars-6143641.html

 

[Speicher]

Maz, you crack me up.

Until you wrote that I did not see what was so funny.

 

[ianrauk]

somewhere or other there will be a report of a case in which an elderly man went out in to his garden every night and pissed against the fence - slowly killing off the leylandii. He was arrested, tried and sent to the slammer.

found the link http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/focus-hedge-wars-6143641.html

Bob Flowerdew, the organic-friendly author of The No Work Garden and a regular panellist on Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time,​

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[dellzeqq]

some of us remember Bill Sowerbutts and Fred Loads!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Oh joyous wonderous day!! one of my other neighbours who has 2 even higher Leylandii is having them seen to as well!!
Lets just hope it isn't just a light pruning off the top.


It might not affect my view, but will someone else!!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

The Sadists!! they have only trimmed the top off them and nothing else.

They started late on in the day yesterday, and I hoped that they would be back to finish the job today, but, obviously not.

 

[biggs682]

so still no view then

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

so still no view then