What can I do to manage neighbour’s trees without a permit?
Without a permit
- You can request a neighbour to cut trees when they are becoming a nuisance to your private property. For example, the trees have overgrown into your property, they are posing a danger to your property, they are infested or posing a danger to power lines.
It is the responsibility of a tree owner to prune any overhanging branches that are breaching a neighbour’s boundary.
This should apply whenever the tree owner is notified that the overhanging branches are posing a danger to neighbour’s animals, building or other property.
In relation to this, a person who owns poisonous vegetation that overhangs into a neighbour’s premises and poisons any animal will also be held liable. This should only be done after you have established that your neighbour’s property is not:
- Within a Heritage Conservation Area (HCA)
- Is Heritage listed
- Within an Endangered Ecological Community (EEC) area.