We have a huge palm tree out the front of our house. It's right next to the opening of our driveway, by the road, and definitely not on our property so it's not our tree. The problem is, it's gotten far too big! The top is actually in the power lines, pushing them close together. We had a massive storm here the other day and it was kinda scary thinking what it could do. I called the council who directed me to ETSA - they're coming out in the next few months to fix it, and said to call their emergency line if it cuts out our power or we see sparks or anything.

The other problem though, that ETSA won't fix, is that it also hangs very low. The branches hanging over our driveway brush the top of our cars when we go in and out, this bothers DH a lot! Granted, we have two 4wds, and it probably wouldn't touch a regular sedan. I didn't mention this to the council, and I figure DH could just trim those branches/leaves and they're not likely to care are they? Or should we get them to do it, given it's not actually our tree? Would they do that because we have a problem with our cars?