Trees next to us

[davey_b]

Our house is next to a hillside that has some rather large trees on it. I had the council tree specialist out to look at it a month or so ago and he said that the trees should be surveyed every couple of years normally but since the hillside is so steep he would suggest they should be done every year.

 

I contacted the land owner who has come come back to me to say that he checks them regularly for problems (I've never seen him down here, we're at the end of a private road and you notice people coming and going and as far as I'm aware he has no qualifications with regards to trees) and he is not going to get a survey done and he is happy they are not any issues. We're planning to put our young son in a bedroom (at some point in the next year or so) that would be under the fall path of a large beach tree with a slight twist in the trunk and I asked the council tree specialist if he's put his kids in that room and his response was no. I've asked him for his thoughts on the response I got from the land owner and I'm waiting to hear back from him. I just wondered what your guys thoughts on it were? We're in Scotland if that makes any difference.

 

Cheers

[john p]

Is it your own home or is he the landlord?

 

 

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[davey_b]

We own our house and he owns the land behind us. He used to live in the house up the hill from us but sold it and strangely kept the hillside!

[john p]

Might be worth getting a report done on it off your own back? Then if its there in black and white he will be compelled to get any remedial work or a fell done if needed

 

 

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[davey_b]

He was nice in his response to me that he said "I DO NOT give you permission to enter my land to carry out a tree survey". We could do one visually from our land which we will do if we have to but seems a bit unfair that we'd have to bear the cost. Also, I suspect he would possibly tell us he doesn't care too much for the results of our survey if it did turn anything up.

[Lukey-Loki]

Might be worth getting a report done on it off your own back? Then if its there in black and white he will be compelled to get any remedial work or a fell done if needed

 

 

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What he said I reckon.

He might be unlikely to pay for a survey but if the tree is condemned by yours, he'd be morally obliged to get it sorted.

I don't know where you stand legally, whether he'd be required by law to have get the work done. Someone on here will know.

[davey_b]

What he said I reckon.

He might be unlikely to pay for a survey but if the tree is condemned by yours, he'd be morally obliged to get it sorted.

I don't know where you stand legally, whether he'd be required by law to have get the work done. Someone on here will know.

 

From the response I got from him I'd not be relying on him to do things out of a sense of duty/morals. I think he'll only do what he's compelled to do and even then it might be a battle.

[davey_b]

What he said I reckon.

He might be unlikely to pay for a survey but if the tree is condemned by yours, he'd be morally obliged to get it sorted.

I don't know where you stand legally, whether he'd be required by law to have get the work done. Someone on here will know.

 

Also, we had the council tree specialist out who pretty much said that the trees needed work done to them, I don't think an official tree survey would make much difference to him. I guess it might show him totally liable if anything did come down.

[Lukey-Loki]

Also, we had the council tree specialist out who pretty much said that the trees needed work done to them, I don't think an official tree survey would make much difference to him. I guess it might show him totally liable if anything did come down.

 

I hope someone on here can give you better advice than I can. Citizen's advice might be worth a pop.

[davey_b]

I hope someone on here can give you better advice than I can. Citizen's advice might be worth a pop.

 

Thanks mate.