A MAN said he feared a 70ft tree could come crashing through his roof and urged the council to remove it.

Colin Newton, of Halifax Way, said he first contacted BCP Council two and a half years ago about a “dangerous tree” by his property.

He said if there was another huge storm “like 1987”, the tree will fall onto his property and into his bedroom.

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“It’s a huge fir tree and if it falls in the direction of my house it will knock the roof in,” he said.

“It is over 70ft tall and only 35ft from my house. It’s not actually on my land it’s on the other side of the fence which belongs to a firm.

“Not only the height, the branches overhang and we have a lot of cones coming down.

“The needles fall off and I have no lawn left and the roots are now spreading.

“If we have another storm like 1987, it will come down and damage my roof, the bedroom and the kitchen.”

Mr Newton said the tree is protected by a tree protection order but when he moved in there was a whole row of them.

He said when the industrial estate was built they could remove all the trees they needed to but left the one by his house.

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He added: “If it fell at night it would definitely fall on me.

“What’s worse is the roots are getting close to the drain, if they go into the drain then you will have a big problem.”

Mr Newton, along with his neighbour Ian Little, said something needed to be done about the tree before it fell in bad weather.

Mr Little said pensioner Mr Newton should “wear a hard hat” in the garden because of the falling pinecones.

A spokesperson for BCP Council said: “It was first reported to us in February 2022 about a tree overhanging into the back garden of a property in Halifax Way in Christchurch.

“We inspected the site, and noted that some large branches were overhanging into the back garden of the property but it was not cause for concern.

“The tree is on private land it and is not maintained by BCP Council, therefore no action has been taken.”