Oh, I thought it was about appropriate planting, one could say the planter is extremely negligent in forcing their desires beyond their boundaries.
Could I build a structure that encroached up to say 100' high half way across your back yard? I bet the answer would be no.
However, you can plant a tree that does.
In England this is what feuding neighbours do with Leylandii Cypress hedges and they actually had to bring in the Anti Social Behavioural Act/Trees.
Anal is some-one forcing their desires upon me, correct tree, correct place and maintaining it is the right thing to do. Obviously for the purpose of the discussion we're not referring to special trees perhaps that were retained for development etc. We are talking typical urban instances.
Making assumptions that the pruning work would in each instance destabilize or kill the tree is also rather preemptive, I can easily say that up here almost any tree would survive it no worries within reasonable terms.
Also remember we are not talking about protected trees.
Why would you plant a 20m wide species close to your fence?
Just today, 2 quotes, 2 fencline jobs and arguing neighbours. One the customer is 84 years old and the neighbours LillyPilly is planted 1m away from the fence, totally covers her driveway, rubs on her roof and drops a heap of red berries where she manages to shuffle around. She asked the neighbour to prune it etc but the neighbour told her to piss off. So due to the argument she got a lawnmower man to hack off a few branches and threw them back onto the tree owners side of the fence ... the dead branches are still lying there the neibs dont give a stuff. I asked the lady to call her local councillor and have them come out and see the BS that tree owners think they have the rights to subject elderly people to ... the victim, the person who is undergoing the tresspass, an 84 year old woman has to pay for the maintenance of the neighbours tree. That doesn't gel with me either. I couldn't call her anal retentive though.
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Originally Posted by TrevMcRev  yet coz some anal retentive cant cope with sweeping up a few leaves on the ground they butcher the neighbours tree. |