Codes & Guidance

Codes & Guidance

This all started around 2010 when stakeholders worked together to agree a process that would reassure mortgage lenders and investors that properties with Japanese Knotweed were not too high risk to touch. The resulting process came out with several recommendations that needed to be addressed in the process:

• Any treatment programme should be insured so that, in the event of the contractor ‘going bust’, the infestation would still get treated.
• The current owner must pay all costs associated with the management plan ‘up-front’, so that the treatment programme can be completed without relying on financial support from future owners. 
• The management plan should be transferable to any future owners.
• The management plan should cover the whole of the infestation, not just the property being sold or the parts identified by the original valuer or surveyor.