PatowalongaPirate wrote:Magellan wrote:PatowalongaPirate wrote:I need to know who pruned my tree?
Didn't notice it last night when I got home due to it being dark, but at some stage yesterday the tree at the front of my property has been significantly pruned. I have no median strip - this tree is on my front lawn.
Does/did it overhang the footpath?
Maybe slightly, but if the council did it why didn't they prune the top which overhangs and is in the power lines? Or even let me know this was going to happen?
BTW, I'm happy it has been done...
If it's a hazard to road users or creates danger or difficulty to a public place the council can order you to remove or cut it back. I think it's unlikely that the council would do the 'prune the overhanging tree back to fence type thing' that neighbours are entitled to do (if there was sufficient overhang, which it seems like there wasn't). Power lines stuff I think is done by the state government.
Baffling. Maybe you've got a gardener you didn't know you had, or the Jim's franchise empire now has a fascist-based compulsory pruning wing (like the SS).