Kniphofia - commonly called red hot pokers- can't tell which variety, though.

Yes I agree, and they do divide but mine then took a couple of years to flower. It seems a shame to dig it up when you can buy them in plants or seed form? also it may be illegal to do so?

That doesn't look like a wild situation either, there's a "beading" of concrete edging, and weed free gravel, a neat lavender plant that looks as if it was tidied up last year (or it wouldn't be so shapely now), plus some other plants spaced out in an orderly fashion, so I reckon your best bet is to buy one. Someone's definitely maintaining that area.

I agree Beattie I thought at first it was someone's garden as you say its been done!

Thanks everyone. Yes, there's several of them on the side of the access road leading to our housing estate. I thought maybe I could take a cutting of it or something and get it to grow in my garden. I'll see if I can get some seeds for it,.

I notice a yellow version of Knophofia back right in the photo too.

I don't think you'd be very popular if you dug any up Ad44. Someone is looking after them and I think they'd be seen as a communal asset, not something "wild" at all. More like a shared garden.

If you clean up afterwards and make the area tidy, then I suppose that dividing the Red Hot Poker you are actually helping. They can come apart quite easily. The red and yellow areas will be full of seeds within a fee weeks if not so already. These take 2 years or so to flower.

It doesn't look overcrowded to me, and technically, taking a bit without permission would be theft.
Better to collect some seed (the slow way of getting your own red hot poker) or go out and buy one (the quick way).

I agree with Beattie the more I look at this, the more I think someone has planted and cares for this area. Why when so many housing estates are scruffy would you want to up root it?