My neighbour refuses to chop down their trees that block ALL the sun from my garden – it's about to crush my fence too
Not only is he not a fan of how huge they are, but he also claimed they are putting pressure on his
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A frustrated homeowner has claimed that his neighbour has refused to cut down the huge trees in their garden
Credit: Reddit
And if that wasn't bad enough, he even fumed that they are blocking all of the sunlight from his garden too.
Unsure on what to do, the anonymous man took to social media, desperate for advice.
Posting on Reddit, on the
Alongside the post, which was shared under the username @datepit, the frustrated man wrote: '
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'The
Following this, he then desperately questioned: 'What to do?'
Stunned by the post, social media users eagerly raced to the comments to share their advice.
But while the gentleman may have expected people to advise him to have a serious chat with the neighbour or contact the council, the comment section was a very different story.
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It appeared that many didn't think the man's neighbour was the one at fault - as numerous users questioned the poster's 'ridiculous' complaints.
One person asked: 'Why would they chop them down? I'm sure the reason they planted them is so they could have a wall. It looks pretty nice. What do you propose they do instead?'
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Another snapped: 'You cannot determine what your neighbour does with their own property. You can dislike it, but you can't force them to do anything. This whole post is ridiculous.
'They have planted healthy, beautiful trees on their own land. The trees are meant to be a
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A third simply commented: 'You have no case.'
At the same time, someone else wrote: 'Quite personally I'd be absolutely thrilled to have a neighbour that has planted, taking all the expense upon themselves to put up a privacy wall like this. And you didn't have to pay a dime.
You cannot determine what your neighbor does with their own property. You can dislike it, but you can't force them to do anything
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'The only thing that needs to disappear out of this scene is that ugly
Meanwhile, one person advised: "Get a survey one, anything over the property line, trim and put panel back up.
"Nothing you can do about it blocking your sunlight."
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