Badly sited tree and housebuying

[BobApple2023]

I'm looking to buy a house. For some reason, the county council has picked the horse chestnut as the right species to plant in a narrow grass verge in front of the house. The tree is young and about 6ft high but I'm conscious that it will grow much, much bigger. The house I'm looking at buying is 7.5m from the tree so I would expect that at maturity the tree could affect the house foundations and driveway, as well as overshadowing the house. Not only that but I suspect it'll ruin the pavement and affect the road eventually. I would like to understand if the council would acknowledge the risk and replace the tree with a more suitable species.

 

I made an initial enquiry of the council to ask if they'd look at it, but they came back with a nonsensical response that they don't replace trees because trees are good for the environment (paraphrasing, but that was the gist of it). So I need to go back to the council and try again but before I do, I thought I should check with people who might be able to suggest the right buttons to push to get them to look again. Has anyone got any advice on how best to approach this please? Thank you!

[scbk]

Post a photo of the tree, let us all see the location

[BobApple2023]

1 hour ago, scbk said:

Post a photo of the tree, let us all see the location

That won't be happening. Happy to describe it better if you genuinely need more info to help with my post.

[Anno]

stupid decision species wise, will be full of leaf blotch in a few growth seasons and looking crap, on the bright side look forward to being plagued by kids for conkers if it gets established...

[rapalaman]

2 hours ago, Anno said:

stupid decision species wise, will be full of leaf blotch in a few growth seasons and looking crap, on the bright side look forward to being plagued by kids for conkers if it gets established...

I didn’t think kid’s would know what to do with conkers nowadays? 
health and safety means they’d all need to wear goggles, gloves, complete a full risk assessment etc!

[MattyF]

Maybe look for somewhere different to live , a nice flat on the 20th floor where there’s no danger of trees in the present or future… as mick says it will be like 50 years even if that tree  does do the damage your talking about. 

[Mick Dempsey]

1 hour ago, rapalaman said:

I didn’t think kid’s would know what to do with conkers nowadays? 
health and safety means they’d all need to wear goggles, gloves, complete a full risk assessment etc!

They’d cover them in sausage skin to create testicles, then change gender. 

Edited November 3, 2023 by Mick Dempsey
Drinking? Me sir? No sir!

[Sviatoslav Tulin]

You die sooner than this tree will affect your House! So no worries.

[Steven P]

I don't know these things but how far out will tree roots spread at least the tree roots with potential for damage? T'internet reckons 2 to 3 times the radius of the tree, 7 1/2m from the house, that would give the canopy radius of 2.5m 5m diameter), that would be quite a big tree then, many years from now, but not sure, would those roots be the ones that might cause any damages?

 

Second thought might be whether it will affect moisture in the soil, which all depends on the location, hard to tell though.

 

Above about suggesting tree gets damaged, I would not be surprised if there were a few council tree officers read this forum - you get good advice on here, so if you were suggesting to damage a tree be aware of that.