![]() ![]() (They also have a long row of 3 metre high leylandi growing a metre away from our kitchen window). We just want to be allowed to enjoy our house and our own garden without a leaking roof, constant blossoms, twigs and tiny leaves that get into everything and our sunlight being stolen from us. ![]() The council web site then says if this doesn't work, try the Mediation Service and if that doesn't work try legal action. ![]() Sounds to me like our council doesn't want to get involved in such matters. I have discovered that I need my neighbour to apply for approval to chop down any part of the tree that hangs into my garden and over my house This is regardless of who is going to pay for it the owner must give permission by submitting the form to council. Thanks, our concil does have a Mediation Service too. If not give them a call, I am sure that they will help you. Perhaps you could check out your local Council website as it should have some guidance as to dealing with trimming neighbours trees etc. I know our Council has a mediation service available for these type of situations between neighbours. My neighbour is a landscape gardner by profession so that may place him in an advantage over me with respect to knowledge of my rights in this case.Ĭan I cut off anything that hangs over my fence - this would be more than the 10% allowed by local council without a develplment application? Is he obliged to pay to get the work done as it's his tree? Do I have to fund the council application? I know the best approach is to talk with my neighbour and that is what I will do, but I want some information on what my rights are as I have an inkling I am going to get significant resistence from them. The pool was here when we moved in.Ī Jacaranda is not an Australian native though it is not on my local councils exemption list so it looks like I'd need to make a council application to get it lopped (yet another $110. until now.Īfter some recent heavy rain I discovered that the Jacaranda leaves have collected under the rubber tubing of my pool heating system on the other side of my house causing the same reaction and water has been dripping into my garage. It's been a real nuisance but we have put up with it. I have had all of this fixed at my expense. In the past 5 years, the roots from their tree have caused a water pipe to burst, has caused subsidence to my path and cracked some of my clay drainage pipes. The neighbours do not receive as much from their tree as the wind seems to blow eveything onto our house. I have paid for an inspection to verify this. ![]() They stick to the tiles and if I don't clean them off regularly they soak up rain water and by capilary action the rain is drawn up under the tiles and into my roofspace. The blooms make an unsightly and dangerously slippery mess, the twigs take ages for me to sweep up and the tiny leaves are causing my roof to leak. There is rarely a week where it isn't dropping something on my roof and swimming pool. The canopy covers a significant portion of my house, when seen from Google Earth or Nearmap, we are alsways in its shade. I am from the UK so not having grown up with them, I really had no idea how badly a Jacaranda could affect our lives. Our neighbours have a very large Jacaranda tree (~15 metres tall) planted just a couple of feet inside their side of the dividing fence, and it seems the previous owners of our house argued over that tree and there was considerable animosity between them. I have been living in my house for about 5 years. I need some advice on how to get my neighbours Jacaranda tree to be pruned back (hopefully so that it no longer hangs into my property). ![]()
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