My neighbour has noisy cockatiels and his leylandii trees are blocking my light. What can I do?
I am having trouble with my next door neighbour, first of all he has cockatiels that whistle from sun up to sun down and when I complained he just told me to get used to it. I tried the local Council but they will not do anything as they say it's not a statutory noise or nuisance, which I dispute. Secondly, approximately three years ago my neighbour planted leylandii trees close to our border fence, they are now about 13 feet high and block out sunlight to our garden. Can you help please?
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So far as the noise nuisance is concerned you should keep a noise diary to send to the Council in the hope of persuading them to take action. If the Council still do not take action you could apply to the Court for an injunction, but this will be expensive and would probably not succeed.
With regard to the trees, you should write to your neighbour asking that he shortens these. If there are two or more of these trees in a row and they exceed 2 meters in height you can complain to the Council referring to S 8 of the Anti Social Behaviour Act 2003 and they may order your neighbour to shorten them. You can refer to this in your letter to your neighbour.
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