Rayring Posted April 18, 2005 Share Posted April 18, 2005 Our garden adjoins a neighbouring farmer's field. The farmer has told us that he believes that trees planted in gardens must be at least 3 metres away from the field boundary to avoid damage to farm machinery from the tree roots unless the trees are limited to less than 3 metres in height. We have a line of lombardy poplars about 1 metre away from the fence so would like to know if this is correct.Can anyone confirm what the farmer says. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJSLIV Posted April 18, 2005 Share Posted April 18, 2005 Les distances : Avant de planter, il faut se renseigner sur l'existence d'une éventuelle règlementation d'urbanisme ou d'un usage local en la matière (mairie, chambre d'agriculture...). Ces règles sont prioritaires sur celles prévues par le code civil.A défaut de règles spécifiques, les distances à respecter sont :- de 2 mètres de la limite séparative pour les plantations destinées à dépasser 2 mètres de hauteur,- de 0,50 mètres de cette ligne pour les plantations inférieures à 2 mètres. So you need to check up on your local rules, but the farmer may well be right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcazar Posted April 20, 2005 Share Posted April 20, 2005 And if your farmer is anything like the one that neighbours us, a thoroughly nice guy, but he has COWS, the problem will be stopping them eating your new trees!Alcazar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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