Hi folks. First poster here and wondered if anyone could advise.
We've been in our new home for nearly two years now and over the last 6 months we've noticed some cracks appearing in our house and some disturbance to the ground outside our house.
Having spoken to the neighbors they pointed out that this is likely coming from the tree outside our properties as they had been seeing similar damage to their home, and said that they had been onto the council for a number of years and had essentially been ignored.
The tree has already distrubed the recent pathway tarmacing that the council have done, and the cracks along the pathway and across my walkway match up to the direction of growth of the roots. The tree is also higher than our houses.
This morning I reached out to our local councilor and also the planning and reg department to try and get some kind of response from them. I also called this morning and was told that they will likely not respond until I get some kind of survey on the tree to officially link the damage in our property to the tree growth.
I just wondered if anyone can advise on this and if the council's response sounds right here? I have building insurance but my girlfriend was a little concerned about notifying them because it might put our premiums up, but I'm of the view that this is the sort of situation where you use it to make sure that we're covered should there be any further damage.
Any advice would be great.
Thanks,
Tom
