Hello
I bought a house about year and a half ago - a run down detached house (used to be end of terrace, rest of the terrace was demolished in the 60s or 70s) in Lambeth. We started big refurbishment works couple of months ago and as we are getting ready to erect scaffolding for roof works, we were going around the neighbour's gardens that back onto our north wall, I found a Sycamore sapling (don't know if it can be called a sapling anymore, it is approximately 4-5m tall already) and rooted not more than 0.5m from our house.
The neighbour whose garden it is in thought it is in her next door neighbour's garden, but it is not, so by the sounds of it, it is definitely not planted by either of them, but self seeded from the giant Sycamore that is at the end of our garden (not in our garden, but another garden backing onto ours).
I am I correct to assume that the young tree is way too close to the house, especially considering that we are on clay soil, the foundations are about 3 bricks deep (so essentially non existent) and there is also a vertical crack running up all the way to the roof not far from the young sycamore.
Should I also speak to the neighbour who lives in the flat with the big sycamore in the garden to get it cut down a bit?
Attaching some photos for reference.
Any advice would be really helpful, and if any consultants near SE5 London would be up for coming to have a look, please get in touch, happy to pay for professional advice.
