What is this weed that is taking over my drive?

fatbelly

If you spot any growing on  public land near you, contact your council.

Cacran

I have this at my allotment. The plot next to mine is run rampant with the stuff. 
For years and years I have been battling with the encroachment onto my plot. Spent hours pulling it out, but back it comes! It is getting further and further . Grrrr!

Ian1961

I used to have an allotment and i took loads of time and effort to dig down about 3ft to cut it off as best i could, shaking soil off as much as possible, then every year pulling up the weakend ones. The thing with this stuff is if you by mistake cut it in half and don't collect it then it regrows. When applying any type of weedkiller try and roughen the weed to allow the weedkiller to soak in otherwise it'll just run off the weed.