Janet Tweedy wrote:

Afraid I'd be no good, I chopped mine down to stump size a few years
back as it kept breaking branches in a wind and had such tiny fruit it
wasn't worth bothering. It also grows roots across the lawn and under
the greenhouse, very close to the surface and it now produces masses of
6 - 7 foot lengths of growth throughout the summer which I take off in
the winter. Not a tree I'd ever plant again.

Someone on:

http://www.lawnsite.com/showthread.php?t=43364

....recommends drilling holes into the stump - to allow
herbicides to penetrate.

More regular pruning might also help. Getting leaves out
is likely to help the plant to survive. Best would be
to keep it at the bud stage.
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