"len gardener"

it might be better money spent arranging with neighbour for you to pay
for and remove the tree (once you have council permission that is!).

** Did you even read the original post ?

Relations between the OP and his neighbour are at rock bottom.


we know someone up here had similar situation to you and that is how
they got around it,


** Blah, blah blah ....

Arguing from an isolated example that you know about and others do not is
idiotic.


they had to also pay for stump grinding and any
repair to fences, gardens and lawns.

** Madness.

Does he also pay part of the neighbour's rates and tax bills ??


money spent in the courts and on lawyers is "good money after bad" the
only winners usually the legal system.


** Often there is NO alternative except to invoke the court process
*designed* for settling intractable disputes between parties. Been working
OK for the last few centuries.



...... Phil