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Can I cut back neighbours bush?

westcoast66 · 2016-05-24 20:57:54

Looking for some advice here and I am not sure if I am in the right forum? As I exit my driveway, my neighbours bush is jutting out onto the road and blocking my view of oncoming traffic. I have asked him to cut it back but he has done nothing. Am I within my rights to clip it back myself?

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#32 30-05-2016 5:00pm
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Hocus Focus wrote: »

There exists a legal right for passers-by to pick fruit off trees growing on private property, but only as far as they can reach without entering said property. By extension, I would say that you are free to cut back branches overhanging the public roadway.

Would be very interested to see where it mentions that in the statute books, can you provide a link, otherwise what you suggest would be theft.

As it stands in law should you prune a neighbours branches off, you have to offer them back to the neighbour as the branches are the neighbours property, So the same would apply should the neighbours permission be obtained to remove branches from the public roadway by a member of the public. This implies to me that you would have to offer fruit back too, when asking permission to remove it.

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