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Sadly, no experience of Southwark Council (and by my Southwark Council experience, I would expect the process to be at least 3.7million times more painful). But... it took two years to get a tree removed from outside my property as the roots were pushing the garden wall over and the leaf-fall in autumn was phenomenal. Our council had separate a separate tree committee (deciding whether a tree had preserved status or not) and shade committee (deciding whether the shade from a tree was a nuisance or not). Each committee only met once every six months and the case was bounced between the committees several times. Eventually the tree was removed, and the document that clinched it was a google earth satellite image, showing that you couldn't see the garden due to the tree overhang. Probably worth getting some pics from Google, Microsoft Bing and Apple, etc., so you can show the tree problem at different times of year.


Re getting some progress / acknowledgement from the council, have a word with your local Councillor - they are usually mentioned in the top couple of pages of the ED issues section. Ask them to find out what progress has been made. Although if you're the Rye Lane ward you haven't got a hope (useless).

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