Next door neighbour's tree are well overgrown and have grown over my fence. With the lean of the trees they have knocked down the fence. He is refusing to pay..... SA
You are allowed to prune your side to avoid damage to fence too. Its not the neighbours responsibility to prune your side.
I would do the following: 1. Check the type of tree (not on heritage or protected list) 2. Check with your council re pruning/trimming tree branches (sometimes Council will send an arborist) 3. If fence is damaged as a result of the tree, then ask neighbour to share the costs of the fence. 4. If neighbour refuses, take it to next level.
Below is a link to the SA Government Legal Services on this topic. Your responsibility to cut back the trees - probably joint responsibility to repair the fence. Probably not worth having a major neighbor incident over. Trees
That's assuming neighbour is willing to contribute to the installation of new fence. OP already said neighbour is refusing to pay...
My favourite type of ********. The neighbor who plants trees on the boundary and then does nothing as they push the fence over.
Thanks for feedback. These photos were taken a few months ago. I did email him and he did cut the trees back but just over the years and being planted on a boundary they grew higher, thicker and on a lean right into the fence causing substantial damage to the fence (knocking it down) thanks
Better than the neighbour who has free range organic termites as pets. There appear to be power lines going over the tree. Can you get the power company to trim and then offer the workers a case of beer to completely trim the tree on the day they arrive?
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