The problem is that no one else wants to do it. On your hands a knees crawling through bushes digging out bramble roots and the removing the bramble growth that in my case reaches up to 5m isn’t something I’d wish on anyone.
Thanks for the reply. Since posting I’ve had a gardener round who said exactly the same thing and will make a start in a week or so. He charges £540 a day for a two person team, which doesn’t sound too bad to me, bearing in mind what a horrible job it is. What do you think?
I'd guess that if the internal damage is really bad that they will retain any listed facades and rebuild internally, probably into
luxury apartments. Developers will be queuing up for that, although parking will be a problem.