Another front garden turned into a carpark
The relentless process of clearing soil, turf, flowers, shrubs and trees from front gardens in our road continues - this time two doors down from us, a neighbour with his growing family needs more parking space for his work van - he's a central heating engineer - and more cars; a growing three, even four car family.
While our garden has a driveway for one car, with room for a visitor (I divorced my car three years ago)...
democracystreet.blogspot.com/2007/10/dignified-divorce.html
...absorbs gallons of rain over the year and is showing all the signs of spring growth, this garden - no longer a garden but a frontage - adds to the accumulation in the city of sterile hard surfaces. There had been talk until recently of planning rules to discourage this but under the Coalition government this is an imposition on the individual; an interference in private space. The idea that reducing the risk of flooding might be a public good has exit-ed left.
democracystreet.blogspot.com/2011/03/back-in-handsworth.html
There are a variety of grass paving options now available which allow 'green parking' for cars and even heavier vehicles. Just try web-searching for 'grass driveways'. green driveways', 'turf reinforcement', 'porous grass paving grids'....
Another front garden turned into a carpark
The relentless process of clearing soil, turf, flowers, shrubs and trees from front gardens in our road continues - this time two doors down from us, a neighbour with his growing family needs more parking space for his work van - he's a central heating engineer - and more cars; a growing three, even four car family.
While our garden has a driveway for one car, with room for a visitor (I divorced my car three years ago)...
democracystreet.blogspot.com/2007/10/dignified-divorce.html
...absorbs gallons of rain over the year and is showing all the signs of spring growth, this garden - no longer a garden but a frontage - adds to the accumulation in the city of sterile hard surfaces. There had been talk until recently of planning rules to discourage this but under the Coalition government this is an imposition on the individual; an interference in private space. The idea that reducing the risk of flooding might be a public good has exit-ed left.
democracystreet.blogspot.com/2011/03/back-in-handsworth.html
There are a variety of grass paving options now available which allow 'green parking' for cars and even heavier vehicles. Just try web-searching for 'grass driveways'. green driveways', 'turf reinforcement', 'porous grass paving grids'....