Acorns on the pavement

So who is responsible for cleaning the pavement when the acorns fall from a tree in a garden? Not allowed to prune the tree as it has a T.P.O. on it.

 

It certainly is a tricky one. I don't know the answer, was trying to help a neighbour who asked.The same answer would apply to leaves as well.
Branches would be a different thing though.

 

I think leaves are an obvious hazard and anyone falling on them is liable themselves. Acorns are another matter. It is like the argument about clearing snow. If snow is left it is obvious but if poorly cleared and icy there may be a claim for negligence.
Plus, with leaves, they could have come from anywhere. Unless you are in an oak wood acorns are pretty specific to the neighbour's oak tree.

 

It's a bit like the conkers falling onto cars and causing dents.

I'd say it's down to the individual, I certainly hope we haven't got to the stage where people are getting sued over a purely natural annual event.

 

It is whether there is a legal difference between fruit (acorns, beech nuts etc. ) and leaves.

 

Its crab apples in my road, everywhere.

 

Your squirrels over there must be really lazy louts! I usually have some crabapples to roller up from the lawn but this year there is not one. There are very few cones left on trees and zero acorns on the oaks.

Over here, if it drops on your property, it's yours to dispose of. That is unless it's something like a giant tree branch breaking off a tree on the town's property. Their land runs about 8 feet in from the sidewalks or if no sidewalk, the kerb.

I think all of the mad dash to harvest everything may prove our furry friends know something about the coming winter that the guessers haven't forecast

 

We don't have any squirrels around here, not even grey ones.

 

I've got two.
It was one until early this year, but until a couple of years ago there was none.
They bury the peanuts from the bird feeder in my pots, get peanuts growing in them in the summer.

The local park is full of squirrels though.

 

No acorns but I have a Beech tree full of nuts a red squirrel and a pine marten that visit but they don't seem to have touched them.