{"id":65422,"date":"2017-09-04T21:31:06","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T14:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lovely-green-front-gardens-reduce-flooding-why-not-ban-concreting-them-over-michele-hanson\/"},"modified":"2017-09-04T21:39:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T14:39:02","slug":"lovely-green-front-gardens-reduce-flooding-why-not-ban-concreting-them-over-michele-hanson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lovely-green-front-gardens-reduce-flooding-why-not-ban-concreting-them-over-michele-hanson\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovely green front gardens reduce flooding. Why not ban concreting them over? | Michele Hanson"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe luscious lawns of Hove have died out and their replacement is an eye-sore. The risk of flooding makes the problem two-foldAbout 25 years ago, I would often drive from London to Sussex to see my parents in sunny Hove. But then my father died, my mother moved, her friends in Hove fell from their perches, then my mother died, too, and there was nothing left to visit in Hove. But, last year, I\u00a0went back to see the hilltop crematorium and blub over my parents\u2019 rose bush, and as I drove out of the stinking town, I noticed, on the far side of Hammersmith Bridge, that something had changed.The pleasant route I remembered looked rather bleak and bare. Then I realised that the lovely green front gardens had nearly all disappeared and been turned into parking bays. Next to this, the crematorium would look cheery. But never mind looks, I\u00a0thought now that flooding is something of a problem and huge swaths of the world are under water, it isn\u2019t clever to coat your garden in concrete. You and thousands of others. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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