It’s been a while since we had a statistic, so here’s a good one. Of the 21 million homes in the UK with a front garden, around 33% have been turned into parking spaces for cars over the last 20 years. That’s 14,200 hectares of oxygen producing, sound absorbing, and water absorbing green space that’s vanished.
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In my suburban London street of 160-something houses, my next door neighbour and I are the only two adjacent properties which have both retained a front lawn!
I wonder how many properties still have real grass in their rear garden too?