In 2021, Mr Walker (name changed for privacy) purchased a property in London valued at over £650,000. The previous owner (the defendant) completed a TA6 form, claiming the property was free from Japanese Knotweed. Trusting this declaration, Mr Walker proceeded with the purchase, assuming the property was knotweed-free. However, after moving in, experts confirmed thatRead more
When 50-year-old Patricia McCaulsky moved into her new home in New Addington in May 2019 she was overjoyed, even believing one plant to be the shoots of a potato plant. Instead of a pleasant potato harvest, however, she soon found that the mysterious plant growing in her Croydon home was actually Japanese knotweed, an incrediblyRead more
Grandmother Mary, from Preston, received more than £27,000 after Japanese knotweed from a nearby derelict railway line encroached on her property. The weed, which has the potential to cause severe property damage had grown in between fencing in her back garden, having started on railway tracks approximately three metres away. But Mary, who has livedRead more
A homeowner from East London, received more than £16,250 after he was sold a property by a seller who failed to disclose that it was infested with the country’s most invasive plant, Japanese knotweed. After purchasing the three-bedroomed home he became suspicious a year later when he started to notice long, dark shoots coming upRead more
