{"id":137109,"date":"2023-05-23T21:45:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T14:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-council-has-come-for-our-gnomes-and-pot-plants-your-hanging-basket-might-be-next-phineas-harper\/"},"modified":"2023-05-23T22:01:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T15:01:16","slug":"the-council-has-come-for-our-gnomes-and-pot-plants-your-hanging-basket-might-be-next-phineas-harper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-council-has-come-for-our-gnomes-and-pot-plants-your-hanging-basket-might-be-next-phineas-harper\/","title":{"rendered":"The council has come for our gnomes and pot plants. Your hanging basket might be next | Phineas Harper"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nPetty policies around communal space are damaging residents\u2019 quality of life \u2013 and are targeting everything from benches to Christmas wreathsPot plants, garden gnomes and birdbaths are in the firing line of a new war on people simply trying to use or enhance the space outside their homes. Local authorities and housing associations across the UK are increasingly imposing heavy-handed rules banning residents of council estates from gardening, drying laundry or even sitting in the sun on their balconies or outside their front doors.Last week, residents of the Vanbrugh Park Estate in Greenwich, south-east London, where I live, launched a campaign to save our front gardens, after the council sent men to dismantle them, citing fire safety concerns. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Petty policies around communal space are damaging residents\u2019 quality of life \u2013 and are targeting...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-zFr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":87243,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/may-bank-holiday-sun-heats-up-sales-of-paddling-pools-and-garden-gnomes\/","url_meta":{"origin":137109,"position":0},"title":"May bank holiday sun heats up sales of paddling pools and garden gnomes","date":"May 6, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Stores pack shelves for boom in sales of ice-cream, ros\u00e9 wine, BBQ staples and garden ornamentsRetailers and garden centres have enjoyed a much-needed boost from what is set to be the hottest early May bank holiday on record, packing the shelves with ice-cream, barbecue food, paddling pools and plants\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":137147,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/when-councils-lose-the-plot-over-gardens-letters\/","url_meta":{"origin":137109,"position":1},"title":"When councils lose the plot over gardens | Letters","date":"May 26, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Council tenants should be encouraged to create gardens on their properties, writes Marie Paterson, while Lyn Pigney finds it strange and sad that local authorities are clamping down on hanging baskets and flower boxesHow sad to read Phineas Harper\u2019s article about council tenants being denied the pleasure of cultivating\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5218,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-glasgow-southside\/","url_meta":{"origin":137109,"position":2},"title":"Let\u2019s move to Glasgow Southside","date":"February 19, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Squint and the broad avenues and tenements really could be Manhattan\u2019s Lower East SideWhat\u2019s going for it? 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