[thesheriff443]

You have just brought a piece of land to build your own house, the problem is it has a 150 year old oak tree right in the spot where your house will be!

you have found out the tree has a preservation order on it and it cant be cut down, this will make the piece of land worthless and you wont be able to build your house on it.

but no one knows that you know about the preservation order, so you could get it cut down, you would be fined but it would be a small price considering what you will have lost if you leave the tree standing,

so do you cut down a tree that has stood for a 150 years and build your home or be left with some where to walk the dog?

[MTVN]

Hmm maybe I can build my house around the tree and leave it at the centre of a nice courtyard

Though really if the fine wasn't that big I could cut down the tree without too many qualms about it, 150 isn't that old for a tree anyway really

[Kyle]

Hardly a dilemma Sheriff when you can be enjoying one of these;

[Niamh.]

I'd cut it down

[smudgie]

You would be informed of the fact that the tree had a preservation order on it when contracts were signed.

No way could I cut down a tree that old.
It broke my heart when my dad had 3 oak trees taken down that his father had planted many moons before.

[Josy]

I would have done my research before buying and found out about the tree.

Problem avoided.

Surveyors Report

1) There is a big ******ing tree that needs to be removed.

[MTVN]

Might be like Glengarry Glen Ross where you get conned into buying a worthless piece of crap land after they advertise it to you as the opportunity of a lifetime dream plot

[Kizzy]

sell it on, for a profit... hehehe

[thesheriff443]

josey and jesus get out of my thread!

cut it down or leave it, that's the question.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Id cut the mother down and plant 100 trees in the grounds

[Josy]

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

josey and jesus get out of my thread!

cut it down or leave it, that's the question.

I would uproot and replant it.

[thesheriff443]

Originally Posted by Josy

I would uproot and replant it.

while doing this, the tree fell on you

[Josy]

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

while doing this, the tree fell on you

No need to be nasty just because you were daft enough to buy land with a big old tree in the middle of it

[thesheriff443]

Originally Posted by Josy

No need to be nasty just because you were daft enough to buy land with a big old tree in the middle of it

its not my land or tree

[Drew.]

Save my Ł and live in the tree house.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Our Irish Tibbers must be reading this as Three House Dilemma and be very perplexed

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Our Irish Tibbers must be reading this as Three House Dilemma and be very perplexed

Three houses I was thinking, what on Earth is the Dilemma here?

[Livia]

I'd have my architect some up with a design that wouldn't disturb the tree but incorporate it into the garden.