So there you have it, you can cut overhanging branches from a neighbour's tree up to the boundary of your property. "This is classed as the right to abate a nuisance," says Graham Smith MCIHort, a ...

A sad fact of life is that sometimes a tree must be cut down. Some trees are beset by invasive insects or disease, others may be mangled by storms, and some die from environmental stress or old age.