Spongey Tree Stump

[IlikeCowboys]

Recently moved to a new house and trying to get to grips with the garden, so will probably be posting on her a fiar bit :)

Anyhow, there is a tree stump and on closer inspection it's very spongey and the sides of it are falling away. Will this be easy to break up and get rid off or will i be left with a patch or should i leave it to just decay on it's own?

You don't say how big it is, but yes if it really soft, and the bark is coming away, you probably could chip away at it, and get rid of most of it. It is possible it could be diseased, but unless you wanted to put a new tree nearby that shouldn't matter much.

Do you have Council vegetable matter recycling facilities, where you could put the waste?

Sounds like it is already quite dead and decaying. Removing stumps can be a laborious task. You can dig, pull or burn them out. If it is mushy like you say I would be tempted to manually hollow it out and grow something in the centre to make a feature of it.