Council has planted tree on my land.

It would not be my choice of tree.. the story was true and QI though! Perhaps you didn't see the funny side! I thought you would have been outraged as the people entered someone else fenced of land to cut it down!

I have taken out trees and replanted ones I prefer in my current garden.. great old conifer nearly sky high replaced by flowering cherries and rowans.

ana hardly serious trespass .. planting a tree on an open frontage where they got the border line wrong..it's a mistake! I am sure it will all get sorted & more quickly with an understanding smile rather than an angry growl!

Are we sure that hunterF did not know? We were informed when new saplings were planted own the road where I used to live but maybe like me he bins what looks like circulars and it could actually have been a letter about tree planting. I lost my info about changes to recycling days like that!

I find all this ranting about damage, trespass and demands for compensation bizarre and unpleasant. Worse case scenario is someone has made a mistake and planted a tree (which I doubt is very large) somewhere its not wanted. Where I grew up (a private house on a new estate) we each had a tree planted by the local authority at the bottom of our lawn near the pavement. They were a delight, some had sweet smelling blossoms, some bright fruits in autumn. Over the years some of the trees either died or grew to big and were taken down and thankfully replaced by something similar. A tree is a blessing, the support life and all nature is proven to add to our general wellbeing.

Frank, you have got your knickers in a twist over a tree planted in the wrong place....so what....it will get sorted. Life is a gift, it would be so much better if we could make the world just a slightly better place than when we first came into it, to love and respect each other and not nit pick just because something is not quite to your liking. Gosh, everyone makes mistakes - can you not just take this on the chin?

HildaW

How can it be unpleasant?!

And nobody's "ranting". #thoughtheycouldbesoon

Well said, Hilda.

I can't help wondering whether some of the responses on this thread would have been different if the OP had not been Frank....

As always with Frank's threads, you all seem to be determined to string it out.

Exactly Ana.

I do not think I have posted on a Frank thread before!

I think j08 that Franks's proposed demands for tree rent could be seen as 'unpleasant'.

Unpleasant? Vindictive!

Strange how such passion has been aroused - it's a piece of land which has been mistaken for a common verge - it's not as if they opened his gate and went inside his obvious boundary.It's a mistake for goodness sake - they haven't cut down his trees by mistake which would be awful or knocked down his garage. What do you want, to get the tree planters sacked?

Calm down, folks! It seems as though the pro-Council bunglers posters are getting more aeriated than the pro- Franks!

I love all the indignant what ifs by some posters - spiralling completely out of control. Frank be honest how tall is this tree and what is its girth

And Frank does it again!

This is gonna go on for days!

And you lot will so enjoy it.

It's a b****y mountain out of a b****y molehill.

It could only happen to^Frank^!

And how would you like it, anno, if the council came and planted several molehills (with moles) in your lawn?

Frank,

I share your concern about the council taking liberties with private land; the fact that the liberty at issue is a tree does not detract from the principle.

You have telephoned them. Why do you not now write to them enclosing a copy of the certificate to which you refer, and a plan showing the length of your front garden and the position of the tree within it? Point out that the longer they leave it in the wrong place, the harder, and hence the more costly, it will be to move, and the greater the potential damage to the tree which they could plant elsewhere. Enclose a photograph if you can.

You could go on to say that if it is not removed within, say a month, you will have it removed by professionals and delivered to their Parks Dept. and send them the bill, which, if is not settled, you will pursue in the Small Claims Court. Copy the letter to your ward councillor, and if you are feeling in a campaigning mood, to the local press.

But you must stay calm and reasonable and not threaten unrealistic rentals.

[Incidentally, I originally typed "yelephoned" at the start of the second paragraph: possibly a freudian slip, but the word does seem appropriate to certain types of phone call.]

Grumpa

Well said. Applied logic.

Surely this is some kind of wind up.

So Frank goes out visiting the poor/sick/ill informed/ whatever and he comes home to find some bloody council workman has only gone and planted a tree in his garden or on his land, what next ? He goes to some meeting or other with some social workers and comes home to find a borstal or a prison built on the land opposite?

grumppa, it's something of an exaggeration to accuse the council of 'taking liberties'. More likely there has been a mistake. That's all - and the situation should be approached in the spirit of finding a solution - amicably, not adversarially.

Ana - kettle calling pan.....