On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:09:20 +0000, Brunettebarbie
wrote:


The neighbour at the bottom of my garden has huge conifers and a tree
that im unsure of its name looks a little bit like a birch, [...]

I've snipped the rest as people can read your original post.

Welcome to the uk.rec.gardening newsgroup (not a forum). Eh? you say.
It's just that GardenBanter, which you've joined, takes your forum
questions and sends them on to this newsgroup in the hope that the
good people here will answer them (which is what usually happens). So
"welcome to the group" messages simply mean that your forum post has
come thru to the group.

This is a gardening group and your question is largely legal, so
Donwill's suggestion about posting in a different newsgroup is right.
However, GardenBanter won't allow you to do that so you need to try
something like Google Groups if your internet provider doesn't give
you direct access to what's often referred to as "Usenet".

That said, a layman's offering is that:

1) If you bought your property then you should have researched it
better before you paid up. Bob has got it right so I won't repeat what
he says.
2) If, on the other hand, you are in your house as a tenant of a
housing association or local council then things are slightly
different, particularly if the neighbour is also a tenant of the same
association or council. In that case you could have a chat with your
tenant worker or housing officer, at least about the dog if not the
trees, and maybe get yourself on the list for rehousing.
3) In the meantime, if you are worried about something falling onto
your child's head then move her play area. Speaking frankly, the trees
were there before you put her play area under them so you only have
yourself to blame if something does fall on her head. There is a
famous phrase about "making your own bed and having to lie in it!"

Jake

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