Knot my problem
I have been following up the issue of knotweed in the ward for a little while, after earlier reports that we’d got rid of it in Gardner Road turned out to be some way short of the truth.
The Council had told me that, as a result of me following up resident concerns over the issue, they had removed the pesky weed from behind houses on Gardner Road a couple of months ago. I went down to have a look, and the plants had indeed been removed. Unfortunately it was only the visible bits that had been removed, rather than the offending and virtually unstoppable roots, which had been left to continue burrowing over anything and everything in their path.
My thanks to the residents who pointed this out to me after we raised the issue in a previous edition of St Mary’s Focus.
So I followed the issue up again, and this time requested that the Council officers do what they can to use the specialist techniques needed to actually get rid of the problem once and for all. And today I have received assurances that a firm called Nomix Enviro Ltd have been approached to deal with this knotweed problem. They will remove the visible elements for now and dispose of them in the appropriate way and in the spring when the weed grows again, they will begin a spray treatment which may have to last up to three years to dispose of the problem.
So, whilst it wasn’t done right first time round, I hope that the correct process to deal with this problem will begin very soon.
Rick
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