Cutting down one of my trees

Oh dear .... neighbours! Have just finished watching The Feud on Channel 5. Don't be bullied by her.

My daughter has a garden with conifers on all the borders. The previous owner made a Japanese garden. She’s gradually going to replace most of the conifers with native trees. She’s already bought a rowan, hawthorn and hazel. She’ll do it gradually.

A neighbour of ours has complained bitterly about a mature beech tree in the corner of our very small garden - it does partly overhang his even smaller one. However it’s protected, so even to get it thinned a bit we need permission. We offered to do it if he’d go halves (it’s a lot of £££) but he didn’t want to pay, so that’s it.
It was there when they bought the house, decades after we bought ours - maybe they didn’t understand that trees shed leaves, and beech trees attract squirrels, who will be busy scoffing the nuts and dropping the shells in autumn!

Why not plant a replacement tree? Although it may take a while to grow, birds will nest elsewhere if the conifer goes.

You can plant any kind of tree to attract wildlife and plant it where it won't disturb the neighbours.

Most birds love shrubs and hedgerow plants more than conifers anyway.

If it was me I would replace the offending conifer and create a different kind of wildlife haven... and keep the neighbours happy.

keepingquiet some neighbours are never quiet. There will always be something wrong.

Unless it was dangerous, I'd only remove it for them if they were paying.

My neighbours are quite noisy too. I have to put up with it. Luckily they go away a lot so that's very considerate of them and affords me some peace.

It's just a fact of life that we have to compromise in order to live side by side with other humans...

We’ve got a fussy,whiny neighbour too. Always looking for something to whinge about. All I can say is they must have unhappy lives, though it is sometimes hard to feel sorry for them.