drshadrack

...I didn't think you could survive or postpone the apocalypse!

Thanks all. Council passed to the EA but i am having to chase them for progress reports. Hopefully sitation will be clearer in a couple of days.

Location is Cheadle. Cheshire.

OK thank you both for your help!

Thanks. You cannot really see the girth of the tree from the pic - I estimate 5 -6' diameter. Also it is being slightly held up by the trees on the bank. My concern is it will settle further if persons start chopping. Do you know if EA willl charge me for removal if it does start to block waterway?

I only have the following pic which doesn't really give the full view. Our garden is about 15 feet above the tree's roots.

We have a mature beech recently downed to the rear of our garden. Tree was sited on the bank of a stream and has fallen across the stream and onto council land. It is not blocking the stream but could possibly cause problems if we have any serious rainfall. The problem is access the tree has fallen into young woodland and as such the only real means of access would b to apporach via the stream (it is not deep). It is our tree as our deeds go to the middle of the stream. A few tree surgeons have had a look but they have advised that it is too big a job or have said that the costs of removal would be prohibitive. What we really need is a tractor or similar to drag it, say 500 yards up the river and onto the bank out of harm's way. I wonder though whether there are any leftfield solutions that someone might have?