Soldato
Nothing wrong with a bit of garden carpeting.
That's a big part of the issue. People want a living room outside with everything neat and tidy and preened to perfection.... It's a garden, let it be a garden. If you don't want that, go buy a flat.
What a moronic comparison. So because people want some outside space they should have grass or else live in a flat?
Might as well not bother tarmaccing roads and just have mud roads everywhere so it's not nice and neat to drive on!
The objections on an environmental level are completely valid but not on how someones garden looks. This is an entirely subjective thing.
Not entirely true. Everyone can agree that Boris Johnson looks like an arse for example.
I think a garden is for enjoying nature. That's my opinion - sorry it triggered you
though a string of loose women seem to disagree!
though a string of loose women seem to disagree!
Good comparison there... Well thought out... Quite moronic actually .
Some slabs and some decking - no issue with that. I think a garden is for enjoying nature. That's my opinion - sorry it triggered you
Its for parties, bbq's/pizza ovens, relaxing and having fun in. Nature is just an annoyance we have to deal with.
He clearly isn't qualified to make that decision though, so I don't buy the "its my garden I do what I want". We live in a eco-system of eco-systems. He shouldn't have the right to unilaterally, without clear business need ('it looks better!1') destroy natural habitat.
I get that because you are retired you are at peak entitlement/NIMBY but it wasn't a personal attack on you. It was a general comment that these things need regulating because they are heading in the wrong direction. Just like you wouldn't build a house with a single skin brick wall or single glazing - it can be done, it is "your right", but it is a massive issue for the collective good.Bit of a curtain twitcher eh. If by natural habitat you mean the slabs thet were down before then I don't know what to say...
I spent years mowing other peoples grass for money, and I'm not doing my own for nothing now I'm retired. Have you got a pic of your garden paradise in London?
I get that because you are retired you are at peak entitlement/NIMBY
NIMBY is you only caring about your view point and what it does for you. I am usually on the side of "anti-NIMBY" as I have to work twice as your generation did to afford half the house whilst putting up with folk saying "IT'LL RUIN MY VISTA!!!11" or "IT'LL CAUSE MORE TRAFFIC!!11".Surely the NIMBY bit is you caring what other people are doing...
Do you have a garden in your London paradise?
OK people own up, whose garden is this?
Viewers slam 'plastic garden' on Worst House on the Street
Viewers of Channel 4's Worst House on the Street were left horrified last night after Gemma and Scott, from York, unveiled the renovated garden of their three-bedroom home.www.dailymail.co.uk
Excellent, whan are you moving out of that concrete **** hole and buying a smallholding?NIMBY is you only caring about your view point and what it does for you. I am usually on the side of "anti-NIMBY" as I have to work twice as your generation did to afford half the house whilst putting up with folk saying "IT'LL RUIN MY VISTA!!!11" or "IT'LL CAUSE MORE TRAFFIC!!11".
You probably won't see real food poverty, but I may - and my daughter certainly will. The world is an ecological disaster at the moment and any small step I can take - I do.
Enjoy your retirement. Most of the folks posting on this forum won't be fortunate enough to retire anywhere close to 57; myself included.Excellent, whan are you moving out of that concrete **** hole and buying a smallholding?
As for my generation, I've just turned 57, and just got back from the garden centre with some plants. I assume you're sat in your inner London office with a chai latte and the air con on, busy telling people who've lived in the countryside their whole lives and actually done gardening what they should be doing to save the planet.