Gardens are too big

quidsin

Greed wrote:

I've been using http://maps.google.co.uk/ (satellite or hybrid) and I think that a lot of the houses built since WWII use up too much land for the garden.

If I was in charge of housing then I would do it differently.

for my pennysworth you'll find that many new housing estates have tiny gardens so they the developer can make more money / sq foot.

benood

Greed wrote:

If I was in charge of housing then I would do it differently.

Luckily the communists were seen off at the end of the cold war, they loved grey centrally planned blocks of flats too, oh and threatening the rest of us with armageddon.

I personally quite like a large garden and I think my children do too.

scorpio_princess

Greed wrote:

I've been using http://maps.google.co.uk/ (satellite or hybrid) and I think that a lot of the houses built since WWII use up too much land for the garden.

If I was in charge of housing then I would do it differently.

Rather strange thing to be complaining about don't you think? If I viewed a house and it had a huge garden, you can bet your life I wouldn't walk away just because of that - quite the opposite!

I see what you're saying though -gardens on these new rabbit hutch estates are the size of postage stamps, even for 4 bed detached houses - incredible I know - whereas sometimes the gardens for 2 bed cottages tend to be much larger.
I've always thought gardens should be in proportion to the size of the house, which doesn't seem to be a factor in today's build-as-many-houses-as-you-can-on-a-tiny-plot-of-land mentality. On the new estates one of my friends live on, there is barely enough room for a car to travel along the meandering roads - goodness knows how a fire engine or ambulance would get on.

Doozergirl

silvercar wrote:

The thing that caught our eye with the house we have just moved to was the 200 foot garden.

Well it would if it was that big, wouldn't it!

olly300

I don't think gardens of houses build in the last 20 years are huge.

In fact they are damn small and the more bedrooms you have doesn't mean you get a bigger garden for example I have a friend who lives in a 2 bedroom house and a friend who lives in a 3 bedroom house and they have the same size garden. The 3 bedroom house is in Kent so you would expect the garden to be bigger than a garden in London, but in fact the biggest garden I've seen on a new house is a 3 bed house in East London. All the houses where built in the last 4 years.

I've been dragged around 4 and 5 bedroom houses with a relative, most of them where new or built quite recently. The gardens where shockingly small i.e. same as a 2 bedroom house.

It's simply the case of how many and what type of housing the developer is allowed to shrove on a plot of land by the council. The people I know with the 3 bedroom house in East London their development included about 3 blocks of flats so the developer didn't need to (or more likely wasn't allowed to) shrove in more houses.

I should say I was brought up in Victorian houses with hugh gardens like most of my childhood friends.

freebird65

OH and I have been househunting and have knocked all new-builds on the head because of the unbelievably tiny gardens...10 pigeon steps and you hit the back fence so not great if you're hoping to have kids.

Roll on a 30s semi with a decent garden!!!

Wasted land? Not as much as things like the Dome.....and surely that has to be better for the soul than acres of grey concrete?

david29dpo

opinions are like buttocks, everybody has them but few should be aired in public!

N9eav

Most new developments these days cram far too many people in a small space. There is usually only one car space per person, but people have 2 cars. There is no where for kids to play as the gardens are tiny. So we find that anti-social problems arise because kids end up playing in the street and annoying other residents. Every one needs a little space between them and the neighbour.

clairefun

I currently own a little 2 bed terrace with a 25' garden, over the three years we've made it into a nice little secluded 'secret garden' almost which works very well for just myself and hubby. However with a 2 year old...impractical and impossible. And we are about a mile away from the nearest park (and it's NOT a nice walk, along a busy main road and it's not a nice area, you wouldn't want to do it by yourself). We are in the process of buying a house with a 110' garden so that we have enough space for our son to enjoy himself safely within sight, and so that we can 'grow our own' & save more money on gorgeous home grown meals. We're mostly buying it for the garden...so I don't think I'd want one of 'your houses' if you *were* doing it. It wouldn't suit MY personal needs (and that of my family) and I think that's the main point.

I'm guessing you don't really use your garden...

clairefun

I currently own a little 2 bed terrace with a 25' garden, over the three years we've made it into a nice little secluded 'secret garden' almost which works very well for just myself and hubby. However with a 2 year old...impractical and impossible. And we are about a mile away from the nearest park (and it's NOT a nice walk, along a busy main road and it's not a nice area, you wouldn't want to do it by yourself). We are in the process of buying a house with a 110' garden so that we have enough space for our son to enjoy himself safely within sight, and so that we can 'grow our own' & save more money on gorgeous home grown meals. We're mostly buying it for the garden...so I don't think I'd want one of 'your houses' if you *were* doing it. It wouldn't suit MY personal needs (and that of my family) and I think that's the main point.

I'm guessing you don't really use your garden...:rolleyes: