Block paving epidemic!

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Jenny Green
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My neighbours have just had their front garden entirely paved over. We have big front gardens down our street. They now have parking for two cars (fair enough - it's a big family), but also a big area that they can't possibly park on.
Great. More global warming (paving will retain and give off heat). More flooding (rain will run off, not soak in). Less wildlife. Okay, it only used to be lawn and bare beds but at least it was green. Now I feel like I'm living next door to a municipal car park. :roll: :roll: :roll:
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Gosh it's not my day today, first i think i've upset Primrose earlier, and now i feel bad because i layed thousands of square yards of block paving when i was in the building trade. :oops:
I hope it's not true what they say about bad things coming in threes. :(
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Oh but it is.......go and break a glass OH :twisted:
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Jenny Green
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Oh Herby. YOU are forgiven! :D
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Herby,

You are not responsible, but the installation recently witnessed by Jenny is typical of what is happening to our world of gardens, there are half a dozen new block paving installations in our village, if people put a soakaway at the bottom and a left a few holes for shrubs and small trees it wouldn't be so bad but they don't. In some small towns the rivers have lost their original courses due to extensive urban building, when they flood they just go into people's front rooms. what goes around comes around I guess.

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