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Advice required...

Your contracted by a large firm to facilitate a phone line, given a purchase order to go ahead with works. Usaul checks were made my end, Conservation, TPO etc.

Works were completed but whilst still on site the land owner turns up and claims to not have been notified. Tree is on a hedge line bordered by open fields and woodland, not a residential property.

Where do you stand as a contractor?

Asking for a friend.....

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Point him at the company who your working for , apologize and play dumb that as far as you were aware he'd been told and how terrible it is but your just doing your job as a little cog in a big machine, cash your payment, forget about it. Done.

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The landowner is saying that he holds “my friend” solely responsible for the work and not the company who contracted him to do the Works. Yet the company sent an email saying they had done relevant land ownership checks........

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17 minutes ago, Doobop said:

The landowner is saying that he holds “my friend” solely responsible for the work and not the company who contracted him to do the Works. Yet the company sent an email saying they had done relevant land ownership checks........

The landowner can do as he pleases.

 

I would personally encourage the landowner to only communicate with me via registered letter from a solicitor. 

 

He'll give up after he gets the first bill.

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3 hours ago, Doobop said:

The landowner is saying that he holds “my friend” solely responsible for the work and not the company who contracted him to do the Works. Yet the company sent an email saying they had done relevant land ownership checks........

thats because he knows if he takes on a big firm they have the money  and solicitors to keep him fighting for years .

If he's got the paper work to show works order from said company?  I wouldn't worry too much there are contractors turning up all over the country to do works like this . I've cut trees with the same issue, told it was LA land  for someone to come out screaming blue murder ........ never had any come backs 

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