07-07-2025
My neighbour refuses to chop down their trees
A man has been left fuming after his neighbour refused to chop their trees down.
Desperate for advice, the anonymous man took to Reddit and uploaded a snap of his neighbour's tall trees, The Sun reports.
He claimed they are putting pressure on his fence and blocking all of the sunlight from his garden.
On the r/treelaw thread, which was shared under the username @datepit, the frustrated man wrote: 'Neighbours have no interest in chopping these trees down.
'The fence will fall down probably this year and they block all the sunlight for my garden.'
Following this, he then desperately questioned: 'What to do?'
Stunned by the post, social media users left 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.
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.
'Why would they chop them down? I'm sure the reason they planted them is so they could have a wall,' one person asked,
'It looks pretty nice. What do you propose they do instead?'
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 privacy screen.
'If you did not like the amount of light your yard receives, you should not have bought that house.'
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.
'The only thing that needs to disappear out of this scene is that ugly fence. That's a shame, I would have put up shrubs on your side to cover that.'
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.'
