Guernsey Press

Knotweed ‘needs to be dealt with, and quickly’

TACKLING the spread of Japanese knotweed is not being treated seriously, one campaigner has said.

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Campaigner Gerry Tattersall at Moulin Huet with some of the invasive Japanese knotweed that he says needs to be eradicated. (Picture by Peter Frankland, 19349754)

It has been a year since drafting began on legislation to stop the spread of the plant but Agriculture, Countryside and Land Management Services said it was still being looked at by the law officers.

There is no end-date for when it might be completed, but campaigner Gerry Tattsersall said something needed to be done.

‘They just don’t seem to accept how serious this is. It needs to be dealt with,’ he said.

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