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I have a similar issue with the Liquid Amber tree on the nature strip outside my house. It is enormous, and the branches not only encroach over my property, some of them are also directly over my house. It drops leaves and spiky seed-pods everywhere during Autumn, filling up my gutters.
I have tried on numerous occasions to get the council to reduce the height of this tree, but every time they send out an arborist to tell me that the tree is healthy and will not fall down or drop branches on me or my house. Removing branches, he said, would adversely affect the health of the tree.
We had a big storm last year, which blew down most of the very branches I was trying to have removed, landing on my son's car which was parked underneath it. When I asked the council to even up the rest of the tree since it was now "unhealthy" (to use the arborists own words), they wouldn't even consider it.
I would be more than willing to pay for a tree pruner to even up the tree, but I am not allowed under council regulations as they own the tree. Interesting that they expect us to mow their grass, but not prune their trees...
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