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Neighbouring Tree Brighton

Neighbouring Tree Dispute

If you have a Neighbouring Tree Dispute we may be able to assist, provide a tree report or consulting arborist services to help with your tree problem.

A distressed client in a Melbourne’s Bayside suburbs contacted us because she thought a large neighbouring tree; a Cypress was damaging her home.

I prepared a tree report and recommended an engineer be engaged to inspect the house to confirm if the neighbouring tree was responsible for the house cracking. I believed this to be the case. The tree was approximately 6.5 meters away from the dwelling.

The engineers report stated:

“there is no doubt that the proximity of the tree in the neighbours property has caused the damage to the dwelling”.

“There was anecdotal evidence that tree roots from the neighbouring tree are invading the drainage system at this site causing blockages”.

“In our opinion consideration ought to be given to the placement of a root control barrier between the dwelling and the neighbouring tree to negate the drying effect of the tree but problems with this option are that the root barrier must be too close to the dwelling as this would cause an undermining of the footings (depending on the depth to which a barrier is founded)”.

The tree damage that was being done to the house and property was obvious as the images following show. There were roots through the front garden, concrete driveway lifting, brick work and even interior plaster cracking and lots of roots were present. The tree damage being done was huge.

I wanted to say thank you for all your help. We have just received our planning permit for our house and your help in making this happen is greatly appreciated.

I just want to let you know that I have received endorsement letter from Maroondah Council on the Landscape Management Plan and Architecture Plans. Thanks again for the great work from you guys!!

For our new garden and entertainment area we placed 100% trust in Darrell to come up with something that was stylish, tranquil and most importantly easy to maintain. He delivered at 110%. Outstanding service from beginning to end. We have continual compliments from family and friends about how beautiful and unique our haven is. Thank you Darrell, you really helped make our house a home.

After months dealing with council over the roots of a neighbouring tree, Darrell’s prompt attention and plain speaking made light work of a potentially costly problem. We can’t thank him enough for making himself available to supervise the excavation of our building site to ensure the tree roots were not damaged, writing the required reports before and after attending to our issues at really short notice

Darrell has been a great support to us on a number of diverse projects for years. He designed and managed the landscaping of our new house on an acre with terrific results. He has provided aborist reports reducing our stress dramatically. Heavily involved in our small subdivision he provided fantastic project management and subject matter expertise. We cannot recommend Darrell too highly as his services really have been exemplary

We met Darrell from “Landscapes by Design” through my husband’s work. They chatted about gardening and our new home. We did not know where to start with our landscaping. Darrell had a blank canvas to work with and created a garden that would suit our lifestyle and clay soil. The end product is a fabulous creation of plants in varying sizes, shapes and colours. We are extremely happy with the result and would recommend Darrell to create your landscaping dream.

Thanks for this Darrell. You have prepared a very thorough and clear tree report and I thank you for this and your advice.

In the storm that occurred shortly after we lodged the application to council part of the River Red Gum by the dam fell towards the house next door falling short of it by inches, but demolishing their shed, the fence and most of the Sequoia sempervirens. As you predicted it failed at the weak spot where the other trunk had recently fallen.

We found Landscapes by Design online and left a small message for Darrell to call us back and discuss our project. We had a few ideas documented where we described with pictures and diagrams the things we envisioned. We lacked the landscaping knowledge and layout skills that only an expert can provide and advise on. This is where Darrell came in and took what we dreamed of and turned it into a reality.

We wanted a really low maintenance, very hardy, drought tolerant garden with some space included for the kids to play in that could be used in other ways down the track. We are so rapt with the results and have been having a ball having some outdoor time. The kids are enjoying playing down ball on our big paved circle. We’ve just added a trampoline in to the bottom part and that is a hit. Nice to be spending more time outside now that it is not a giant ugly weed patch.

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