Neighbours brambles coming into my garden

Penguin_

Morning all

I own my mid terrace home & have a council tenant on one side of the terrace & their garden is horrifically overgrown, they cut the grass once a year & they have a massive bramble bush that is greater than 50% of the size of their rear garden. I've put fencing up as the walls that separate the garden are only about 4ft high but the brambles are coming up through the fence & behind my shed. I have mentioned to the occupier about it but they are a bit older than me & to be fair it is a massive job to cut it back.

Am I allowed to contact the local authority & ask them, as it is a council house, if they can do something about it?

Grenage

You could (and I would) offer to spray their brambles with glyphosate.

the_lunatic_is_in_my_head

Spray the bits growing into your garden with some Round Up, they'll die off and it sounds like your neighbour won't mind.

Browntoa

Tenants responsibility , not the councils.

Just offer to go next door and cut it all off at the ground 

comeandgo

I would contact the council, especially if elderly neighbour.  Our council does have a gardening crew who go round and tidy up elderly council tenants gardens.

st999

the_lunatic_is_in_my_head said:

Spray the bits growing into your garden with some Round Up, they'll die off and it sounds like your neighbour won't mind.

I did that with a neighbour's Leylandii, it killed the whole tree eventually.
They never knew why it died.

GDB2222

The council may simply order the tenant to tidy up the garden, which it sounds like he can’t do. 

The kindest approach would be to offer to go round and cut it all down for him. 

Slinky

My MIL's neighbour is a council tenant. A couple of times a year some people are sent by the council to chop back the trees and grass. The tenant is elderly, but never bothered with his garden even when much younger.

FreeBear

Browntoa said: Just offer to go next door and cut it all off at the ground 

Brambles will shoot up again pretty quick from the stump and any roots left in the ground. You need to dig it out and get rid of the roots. Not an easy task if it is well established.

maisie_cat

Grenage said:

You could (and I would) offer to spray their brambles with glyphosate.

That's what I did in the same situation years ago, it took some time but they were virtually conquered

GDB2222

FreeBear said:

Browntoa said: Just offer to go next door and cut it all off at the ground 

Brambles will shoot up again pretty quick from the stump and any roots left in the ground. You need to dig it out and get rid of the roots. Not an easy task if it is well established.

If you keep chopping them down, does that exhaust the roots eventually? Or, do you have to use a systemic weedkiller?