Reading and Slough amongst areas with harmful Japanese Knotweed

Japanese Knotweed is an intrusive plant understood to trigger damages by spreading its origins underground, rupturing with weak or split concrete, structures and various other frameworks.

It expands throughout the summer season and intrusive plant professional Environet has actually evaluated the most up to date information to disclose this year’s Japanese knotweed hotspots – discovering 377 records in the region.

Reading has actually been reported to have 148 invasions ofJapanese Knotweed

While Slough has 59 and Maidenhead 27.

Wokingham has less invasions, with simply 26 reported, adhered to by Ascot which saw 23 reported instances.

There are understood to be nearly 58,000 well-known invasions, with Japanese knotweed being the UK’s the majority of intrusive plant.

Homeowners and property buyers have actually been advised regarding the threats connected with the weed,

Japanese knotweed normally arises in March or April and proliferates …