Should I just cut it straight up over the property line?

But you are also responsible for any costs incurred to do so.

Feb 08, The first thing you need to know is that trees planted on the boundary belong to both properties equally, and you and your neighbour need to work together when it comes to looking after these trees.

This means that you are both responsible for pruning the trees and you have to agree before either one of you can trim or remove a shrubremoval.barted Reading Time: 4 mins. While that might seem to be a good way to shear a boundary hedge, large trees rarely respond well to inter-nodal (random) pruning cuts on their branches.

This type of indiscriminate pruning invites diseases and insect pests that could eventually kill the tree entirely.