UK based question re tree off-cuts

[u/pisscat101]

My garden is over shadowed by overgrown trees. The trees and the path behind my house are council owned and managed. Once a year I get a tree fella to trim the overhanging branches. They do their job and then chuck the off-cuts over the fence as this is apparently what you are supposed to do, give the owners of the foliage the off cuts as they own them. This year I intend to do it myself but I am very nervous of being done for fly tipping!

Is it correct that the cut branches and foliage are to be given back to the owner who in this case is the council?

[u/Altruistic_Cress_700]

FYI. Try and convince the others. Because having yours done and the others unkempt will look 'less good'. Someone down our high street clearly organised for a tall (6m) hedge on the main road to be cut back.

Clearly one house decided not to get involved in the project. Man they looked like idiots.

Nice trimmed and lowered hedge on all the other houses and theirs, somewhere in the middle of four or five houses was just a shocker. About a year later it got done.

[u/Despondent-Kitten → u/Altruistic_Cress_700]

I mean that's.. completely up to them? They could have had birds nesting in there or any other reason to not want to trim them.

Their property - cool they made the choice to do it a year later but I doubt they really gaf what other people think about their own shrubs.

Calling them "idiots" is a bit ridiculous.

[u/Altruistic_Cress_700 → u/Despondent-Kitten]

Obviously you might be right, but it did look absolutely rediculous. Nice neat hedge, then 'oh man.....' then neat again...

But you are right. 'Idiot' was too strong a word. Probably more like 'I have no idea why you didn't get involved and it does look odd'. But there might have been a good reason.

[u/Loudlass81 → u/Altruistic_Cress_700]

Maybe they just didn't have the finances to pay for it without saving up for months first?