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Expert Insight: Interviews with industry experts

Daniel Docking: How PCA accreditation safeguards customers

In this expert interview, Ross Cheeseright speaks with Daniel Docking, Technical Manager at the Property Care Association (PCA), about how PCA accreditation protects customers and drives high standards in invasive weed control. Daniel also shares his thoughts on the future of the industry, including new technologies, sustainability, and why glyphosate is here to stay.

🎥 Hear from one of the industry’s leading voices on regulation and innovation.

✔️ How PCA accreditation benefits customers
✔️ Innovations shaping weed management
✔️ Why glyphosate remains essential (for now)
✔️ Daniel’s favourite invasive plants

David Richards: Japanese Knotweed Legal Challenges

Thinking of buying or selling a property? If Japanese knotweed is found, it can have serious legal and financial consequences. In this interview, David Richards of Roach Pittis explains the legal risks and hidden costs of knotweed, and how to avoid expensive mistakes.

🎥 Essential viewing for homeowners, landowners, and developers.

✔️ Legal risks of not declaring knotweed on the TA6 form
✔️ How knotweed impacts property value
✔️ The real costs of getting it wrong
✔️ How Roach Pittis helps clients make successful claims

Philip Stapleton-Povey: Land Remediation Relief (LRR)

Land remediation relief (LRR) can transform rundown or contaminated sites into valuable assets — and save businesses a significant amount in tax. In this interview, Philip Stapleton of Counting King explains how LRR works, what costs qualify, and why even the most unpromising land might be worth a second look.

🎥 Discover how to unlock the hidden value in problem sites.

✔️ How LRR can give up to a 150% uplift on qualifying costs
✔️ What types of remediation work qualify
✔️ Real-world examples of major tax savings
✔️ Why you shouldn’t rule out derelict land

Stay Safe: Spot and Avoid the UK’s Most Toxic Plants

From riverbanks to woodland trails, the British countryside is home to some of the most dangerous plants in the UK. Many look harmless, even beautiful, but can cause serious injury or death to humans, pets, and livestock.

This guide highlights the UK’s most toxic species, from hemlock and giant hogweed to ragwort and cotoneaster. Learn how to identify them, understand the risks they pose, and take the right precautions to protect yourself, your animals, and others.

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About us

A national contractor, Environment Controls is a trading name of Japanese Knotweed Ltd (established in 2010). Our vision and goal to provide the customer focussed professional services to homeowners and businesses up and down the country has kept momentum. We now operate from three offices; London, Southampton and Manchester.

As the weed control industry has changed over time, so we’ve grown our business and invested in IT and tech to benefit our clients with live reporting and bespoke designed amenity spraying quad bikes that reduce herbicide usage by 60%. But what we’re proud of being known for is our people, expertise and capabilities. We love to save our clients time and money – so when our staff are onsite surveying or excavating they’ll be on the lookout for other ground contaminants that need to be removed – which we can do at the same time!

Training is important to everyone in the company, and we can help train you too. Gaining knowledge of invasive plants will help keep you and your teams safe.

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Sustainable Weed Management

At Environment Controls, we take a smarter, greener approach to invasive weed control. Our focus is on long-term, sustainable outcomes – not quick chemical fixes. By combining modern application methods with targeted treatment schedules, we reduce herbicide use and conserve water without compromising on effectiveness. This approach helps our clients meet sustainability goals, reduce environmental impact, and stay ahead of regulatory expectations.

Our process is suitable for councils, developers, large estates, and land managers seeking an efficient way to tackle knotweed, horsetail, and other invasive threats – all while improving ESG performance and protecting site biodiversity.