Haha, yes agree on that B 3 but I think the topic started more as angst against people paving over their gardens and it makes me soooooo mad !!!! We have a lovely road with mature old houses and mature front gardens, this year there are four all next door to each other where the gardens been ripped out and a minging white poured concrete has been put down, it makes me want to cry (or knock their heads together-but I'll keep my violence to myself lol)
Hmm, we did hijack the thread a little, but I think it's important that we see both sides of every story
I was out on my bike yesterday, stopped at traffic lights, used the right lane approaching the roundabout to turn right (highway code says I don't need to do that but I prefer to if I can find a space to pull across after signalling and making sure the next car has understood my intention) and all the normal stuff. I was starting to get a little frustrated coming out of Morrisons though as the lady in front was ignoring big gaps for pulling out left onto the roundabout, turned out she had got into the wrong lane and was trying to go straight on. We all make mistakes sometimes, just have to let them go!
If more people cycled the short journeys, the roads would be much safer for all cyclists.
Anyway, we covered the issue of nice gardens being laid to concrete or monoblock, but how do people feel about those untended overgrown jungles of gardens (often also filled with trash) - would we rather see them turned to hard standing so the inhabitants can manage them, or prefer to look at the mess because at least it is mostly green?
That's a very good point boater, tis a conundrum ! I suppose that if it was reasonably nice flagging / hardcore it would be more acceptable than the trash filled jungles lol. I have one of those next door but one and I HATE looking at it aargh...... O dear, no happy answer is there
Can I just ask, Flora rosa, what gives you the right to presume what is or isn't acceptable for people to do with their garden? I agree that people should be responsible residents and not use their gardens as rubbish dumps but, how they do that is, surely, up to them. If, for either practical or aesthetic reasons, someone decides to pave/concrete/gravel or whatever their garden, surely that is their choice and not one for other residents to make (provided they don't break planning rules of course).
There are lots of gardens that would not be to my taste but I would never dream of assuming that my choice is the right one for everyone else. If people are using their gardens as rubbish dumps in your street you should report them.
Oh, by the way, I don't have a paved over front garden. I have a single width driveway with lawns, beds and borders. Is that acceptable to you?
Pottering about, I do not "presume" nor have the "right to" anything but believe me I can have my opinion ! if I "had the right to" then I would be telling said people off and as I'm not that type of person I do not. All I can do .... Is try to keep mine nice and avoid looking at eyesores around me Or paved over gardens ! The paved gardens (and further to the discussions on this post - meaning fully paved over) bug me due to ugliness and potential for flooding. I am here merely having a chit chat on a gardening forum!
Just be thankful we (well, most of us on here) don't live in certain states of the US where it is illegal to grow veg in your front garden! A google search for that gets about half a million hits..
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
I was talking to a taxi driver today who said he 'couldn't be doing with green stuff, far to untidy' Paved over parking suited him and he genuinely couldn't understand why I have a rose hedge. Just proves how different we all are and our varying interests
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Haha, yes agree on that B 3 but I think the topic started more as angst against people paving over their gardens and it makes me soooooo mad !!!! We have a lovely road with mature old houses and mature front gardens, this year there are four all next door to each other where the gardens been ripped out and a minging white poured concrete has been put down, it makes me want to cry (or knock their heads together-but I'll keep my violence to myself lol)
Hmm, we did hijack the thread a little, but I think it's important that we see both sides of every story
I was out on my bike yesterday, stopped at traffic lights, used the right lane approaching the roundabout to turn right (highway code says I don't need to do that but I prefer to if I can find a space to pull across after signalling and making sure the next car has understood my intention) and all the normal stuff. I was starting to get a little frustrated coming out of Morrisons though as the lady in front was ignoring big gaps for pulling out left onto the roundabout, turned out she had got into the wrong lane and was trying to go straight on. We all make mistakes sometimes, just have to let them go!
If more people cycled the short journeys, the roads would be much safer for all cyclists.
Anyway, we covered the issue of nice gardens being laid to concrete or monoblock, but how do people feel about those untended overgrown jungles of gardens (often also filled with trash) - would we rather see them turned to hard standing so the inhabitants can manage them, or prefer to look at the mess because at least it is mostly green?
Nowadays there are Planning Restrictions to be adhered to regarding driveways etc https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/7728/pavingfrontgardens.pdf
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That's a very good point boater, tis a conundrum ! I suppose that if it was reasonably nice flagging / hardcore it would be more acceptable than the trash filled jungles lol. I have one of those next door but one and I HATE looking at it aargh...... O dear, no happy answer is there
Can I just ask, Flora rosa, what gives you the right to presume what is or isn't acceptable for people to do with their garden? I agree that people should be responsible residents and not use their gardens as rubbish dumps but, how they do that is, surely, up to them. If, for either practical or aesthetic reasons, someone decides to pave/concrete/gravel or whatever their garden, surely that is their choice and not one for other residents to make (provided they don't break planning rules of course).
There are lots of gardens that would not be to my taste but I would never dream of assuming that my choice is the right one for everyone else. If people are using their gardens as rubbish dumps in your street you should report them.
Oh, by the way, I don't have a paved over front garden. I have a single width driveway with lawns, beds and borders. Is that acceptable to you?
Pottering about, I do not "presume" nor have the "right to" anything but believe me I can have my opinion ! if I "had the right to" then I would be telling said people off and as I'm not that type of person I do not. All I can do .... Is try to keep mine nice and avoid looking at eyesores around me Or paved over gardens ! The paved gardens (and further to the discussions on this post - meaning fully paved over) bug me due to ugliness and potential for flooding. I am here merely having a chit chat on a gardening forum!
Just be thankful we (well, most of us on here) don't live in certain states of the US where it is illegal to grow veg in your front garden! A google search for that gets about half a million hits..
I was talking to a taxi driver today who said he 'couldn't be doing with green stuff, far to untidy' Paved over parking suited him and he genuinely couldn't understand why I have a rose hedge. Just proves how different we all are and our varying interests