Neighbour forced to pay $2k a year to cut back trees

A bitter battle over a multimillion-dollar Brisbane river view has ended with a homeowner ordered to prune boundary trees and wear an estimated $2000-a-year cost to keep them under control. The Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal ruled in favour of Graceville couple Angus and Alissa McDougall, who argued a row of fast-growing trees planted by neighbour Louise Arvier had become a major obstruction to the river outlook from their hilltop home. The McDougalls bought their Molonga Terrace property for $2m in 2019. Tribunal material shows they were attracted in part by a glimpse of the Brisbane River from the balcony, which was later obscured as the trees along the shared boundary matured. MORE NEWS Woman loses court bid to stop parents selling ‘her’ home ‘Real mess’: 101yo grandma trapped in fence feud ‘Third-world’: Bleak photo shames booming suburb The view from the home owned by Angus Graham McDougall and Alissa McDougall. The dispute was brought under the Neighbourhood Disputes (Dividing Fences and Trees) Act, which required the couple to establish that the vegetation had caused an unreasonable interference with their enjoyment of the land. In a decision dated August 18 an...