They are (rightly) very protective of their trees down here @Stu_of_Kunming and this isn't the first prosecution or POCA proceedings over someone ignoring a TPO to increase the value of their property.
Nothing to do with this case per se, but worth noting a Chelmsford man was fined £90,000 pounds (reduced to £60,000) for damaging a 90 year old Cedar tree in his own garden.
Well, it is sort of. Certainly the main part of it is. Obviously there is no "before" photo but if the right hand side was a mirror of the left then I'd say it's been "cut in half".
Before photo. Trunk looks untouched, just the overhang which I believe the neighbour is entitled to do as long as he offers the cuttings back to the owner.
Quite within his rights to prune any bush or tree overhanging his property. Don't think I'd like to have my car crapped on morning, noon & night......although looking at the photos he can park his car well away from it.
Quite within his rights to prune any bush or tree overhanging his property. Don't think I'd like to have my car crapped on morning, noon & night......although looking at the photos he can park his car well away from it.
This thread has reminded me of something a mate of mine did a while back - let's call him Derek.
Derek and his wife live in a gorgeous spot with views out to Moreton Bay from their back deck, their back garden meets the Pacific Ocean - not bad for a backhoe (excavator) driver from Lancaster.
Anyway, Derek's next door neighbour Dave moved out, demolished the shack he was living in and put the block of land up for sale, hoping to attract a professional buyer that would build a new, massive house on the block, therefore potentially blocking out some of Derek's amazing views.
Derek wasn't happy about this but is a really nice bloke and knew he couldn't really do too much so he swallowed it and just got on with life.
A couple of weeks later Dave texts him to say that there is a couple coming round to look at the block and could Derek show them around as he was out of town and he agreed.
Derek was distraught that this was now becoming a reality so he got pissed up massively on the Saturday night and about midnight he drives his backhoe over to his neighbours block and starts digging holes - LOTS of holes all around the block - dumping the soil on the beach line out of the way - to this day he remains unsure as to what he was actually trying to achieve.
After about an hours work he was done and went to bed still pissed up but drifted off to sleep and woke up in the morning not really remembering too much about it until he took his morning cuppa onto his balcony and looked over at Dave's garden and saw that it looked like a series of bombs had gone off, leaving these massive craters all over the garden.
By now, of course, it's broad daylight so he can't get the backhoe out to fix the damage - which would have been relatively easy - because he can't be seen at the crime scene and he doesn't have time anyway as the couple are due to arrive to view the block.
Sure enough the couple arrive and as soon as he shows them onto the block they clock the Somme like landscape.
"What's the story with the holes? Looks like a bloody war zone!" says the potential buyer.
"No idea mate," says Derek, "Dave did mention he was having a problem with Wombats, but I didn't know it was this bad!"
The couple took a look around and left wordlessly, clearly unnerved about the scene they had stumbled upon and continued their property search elsewhere.
Derek thought he had got away with it until he got a text from Dave later in the afternoon, "What the fuck is all this about loads of fucking wombats on my fucking block?"
At that point the game was up and the truth had to be told which Dave, being an absolute diamond bloke, thought was the funniest thing he had ever heard laughed his bollocks off!
The block was eventually sold and a massive house built which did indeed block some of Derek's views but at that point he deemed further interference far too risky.
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I'm sure it will spring into action in a year's time.
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I've been too busy sitting on the porch, sipping champagne, puffing on a big fat cigar, whilst playing Happy Days.
https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/22/man-fined-60000-for-damaging-tree-in-his-own-garden-11948600/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-57598101
Derek and his wife live in a gorgeous spot with views out to Moreton Bay from their back deck, their back garden meets the Pacific Ocean - not bad for a backhoe (excavator) driver from Lancaster.
Anyway, Derek's next door neighbour Dave moved out, demolished the shack he was living in and put the block of land up for sale, hoping to attract a professional buyer that would build a new, massive house on the block, therefore potentially blocking out some of Derek's amazing views.
Derek wasn't happy about this but is a really nice bloke and knew he couldn't really do too much so he swallowed it and just got on with life.
A couple of weeks later Dave texts him to say that there is a couple coming round to look at the block and could Derek show them around as he was out of town and he agreed.
Derek was distraught that this was now becoming a reality so he got pissed up massively on the Saturday night and about midnight he drives his backhoe over to his neighbours block and starts digging holes - LOTS of holes all around the block - dumping the soil on the beach line out of the way - to this day he remains unsure as to what he was actually trying to achieve.
After about an hours work he was done and went to bed still pissed up but drifted off to sleep and woke up in the morning not really remembering too much about it until he took his morning cuppa onto his balcony and looked over at Dave's garden and saw that it looked like a series of bombs had gone off, leaving these massive craters all over the garden.
By now, of course, it's broad daylight so he can't get the backhoe out to fix the damage - which would have been relatively easy - because he can't be seen at the crime scene and he doesn't have time anyway as the couple are due to arrive to view the block.
Sure enough the couple arrive and as soon as he shows them onto the block they clock the Somme like landscape.
"What's the story with the holes? Looks like a bloody war zone!" says the potential buyer.
"No idea mate," says Derek, "Dave did mention he was having a problem with Wombats, but I didn't know it was this bad!"
The couple took a look around and left wordlessly, clearly unnerved about the scene they had stumbled upon and continued their property search elsewhere.
Derek thought he had got away with it until he got a text from Dave later in the afternoon, "What the fuck is all this about loads of fucking wombats on my fucking block?"
At that point the game was up and the truth had to be told which Dave, being an absolute diamond bloke, thought was the funniest thing he had ever heard laughed his bollocks off!
The block was eventually sold and a massive house built which did indeed block some of Derek's views but at that point he deemed further interference far too risky.