Boundary trees to be cut by neighbour

[Mick Dempsey]

Saw one around Chichester cathedral 2003 ish.

[monkeybusiness]

Peregrine’s favoured nesting site is at the top of a nicely pruned German pine, every twitcher knows that…

[eanswythe]

Peregrine it was.  Nearby nesting pair.  It was a huge surprise to see it so close from the bedroom.  I was told by the local rangers it was probably investigating hunting grounds for the new chicks. 

[eanswythe]

Actually this one nests on roof of a tall building by the river with alot of open ground nearby.

[Alinicoll]

Just to clarify, do you know if you're on a shrinkable clay soil? 

[eanswythe]

Yes it is clay soil

[Stubby]

18 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Saw one around Chichester cathedral 2003 ish.

They have been nesting there ever since Mick . There is a camera watching them and a screen down below in one of the rooms . Very popular when chicks hatch .

[Rich Rule]

On 28/11/2024 at 09:17, Rough Cutter said:

Fair but I don't see how an insurance company can force another land owner to cut trees .

Seems a bit dodgy 

They used to do it all the time.  I worked for a couple of firms years ago.  We removed so many healthy tree because a neighbours 10 year old extension was falling off their house.

 

Basically bad building.

 

Person sees cracked in their house.  Cool fact the insurance company.  Building surveyor will monitor the crack of a number of seasons.  If deemed or suspected from the trees trial pits are dug and analysis on the roots.

 

Remove culprit.  Not always the correct culprit.  For example, I have removed small holly trees, a few shrub and an apple tree in a garden closes to the damage.  No one seemed to notice the 20m plane tree on council land 10 metres away from the damaged property.

 

As for @kram comment.

 

They want low risk and are going by what their customer has told them, they are unlikely to have visited themselves.

 

I very much doubt that.  Who else pays for the Building Surveyor, Aboricultural consultant and the year or two’s worth of monitoring.?

 

Unless things have changed dramatically the Home owner never used to pay for these things.  What would be the point of having insurance?

 

There were companies making shed loads of money acting as the middle man for the above services I mentioned.

 

When the work was signed off by all parties, we would go in and remove the trees.  

Sometimes the monitoring and discussion, often hostile, had been ongoing g for 2-3 years.

 

[Mark J]

Have your neighbours had trial pits dug and is there positive root ID from any roots found? That would go some way to locating the source of the current damage. 

 

Are you aware if level/crack monitoring is being undertaken?

 

 

 

 

[eanswythe]

1 hour ago, Mark J said:

Have your neighbours had trial pits dug and is there positive root ID from any roots found? That would go some way to locating the source of the current damage. 

 

Are you aware if level/crack monitoring is being undertaken?

 

One of their drains had some root matter.  Decomposed and not identifiable.