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I'm not sure for the need for the ad hominem attacks - play the ball not the man as I was once instructed to by a judge. The original link, and the one below clearly states - like most things in common law - that there is a balance of rights and responsibilities. i.e. the right to remove roots/branches from your land, but the responsibility to take "reasonable care" in doing so. https://www.trees.org.uk/Trees.org.uk/media/Trees-org.uk/Documents/GuideToTreesAndTheLaw-Web.pdf Going back to the OP they were asking for advice - I gave them advise going forward from an insurance PoV especially if they renewal with a different company etc. and potentially concealing a "material fact". I think by the nature of this forum we can all agree it is a shame that two oak trees could be felled, but also if your property was being damaged, and you had a report telling you the cause you'd be aggrieved too, and want to seek a remedy; would you not?

This seems a good general introduction... https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/types/trees/the-law It might also be worth talking to an insurance broker, as the report now exists and thus a "material fact" that an insurance company may in the future claim to be misrepresentation and/or non-disclosure if the aggrieved neighbour's insurance company did in said future make a claim of trespassing roots, and/or negligence on the part of the oak owning neighbour.

Thanks everyone for your plentiful replies, I've returned to the "scene of the crime", and taken a couple more pictures. It definitely has a fragrance to it, and I too thought it may be Norwegian Pine going by the leaves in the Streetview picture from 2009. I've actually learnt a lot from your combined wisdom, i.e. Honey fungus which is probably what caused my willows to be felled - from reading RHS advice it sounds like I'd be wise to get rid of the remaining stumps so not to spread elsewhere? I certainly had the white mushrooms growing at the stump in the Autumn, and the heartwood of the willow was spongy or punky as Americans call it.

Dempsey needs his Makepeace! 😉 Wrong street, wrong tree... Does the telephone pole help for reference to identify the leaves from the fourteen year old Streetview?

I actually had two willows in my garden before they had to be felled due to disease, and that was a lot harder to split! This is fairly straight, but very heavy as they were long lengths - it split on the foot splitter very easily like Lime. The tree when still standing was very tall (30'), and slim but leaning over a neighbour's property and diseased at the bottom hence the council taking it down. Most of the road is Scot pines, but there are exotic trees round here too. Monkey puzzle tree being a previous builder's calling card.

HCC contractors were taking down a diseased leaning tree on the public highway right outside my house this morning, the log goblin in me was straight out there to ask if I could have some - they kindly obliged and left roadside about a cubic metres worth - very straight and easy to split already about 30% moisture rate so probably be good to burn next winter. I asked one of the young fellas what it was, and he didn't seem that confident but said Honey something, and a quick Google suggests this non-native species, can anyone kindly confirm?

All H/W accepted & Cedar S/W only - Church Crookham driveway