Gardens are too big

lynzpower

my grandparents own a fairly large 4 bed house in leafy Cheshire. The garden is massive!!! I stand to inherit the pile when they fall of thier perch and Im going to get PP, and build probably about 60 flats on there, sell them for 200k each - Im gonna be minted. that would suit you better greed would it, no point in having all this wasted garden, lets get some housing on it! :money:









tongue in cheek as ever!

Rick62

And actually its rubbish that there is a shortgage of land. 92% of the UK is non urbanised, ie. farm, common, woodland etc, which is very pretty, but it would be nice to have a bit more of that for families to be able to have enough gargden for the kids to kick a football.

Another 2% for residential could make a huge difference to residential quantity and quality and would still leave 90% countryside.

Maximillion

I haven't come across a newly built house with a big garden yet, perhaps since the war there have been some, but the latest developers are certainly redressing the balance so you can rest easy on your astro turfed balcony.

Ems*Honie

Our garden is huge, with lots of trees. Its why we bought the bungalow that needs to be made bigger, because its small and we have 2 children. But our garden is huge, and we love it We know some people whose mortgage is huge, and their house is big, but their garden is dinky. i would rather have my garden, even with the mud and leaves that get mulched through the (very small) bungalow!

silvercar

You can never be too rich, too healthy, too thin........

or have too big a garden!

h_roberts

Living in 'leafy Cheshire' myself, I cannot imagine living in a house with less than half-an-acre of land. You need it to keep sane! As well as the obvious - gorgeous veg, wonderful plants and flowers, room for the grandkids, space for the wildlife etcetera etcetera.
Locally, any house on a large plot that comes up for sale is in danger of being demolished for development. Not many minutes away, a friend's former 4-bed house has now been replaced by FOUR large new builds and I reckon the occupiers must be good friends - they'd have to be, they can probably hear each other f&$@rt!

jam86

Some properties are considered to have back gardens that are too large. However this is very much dependant upon the lands useage and owners opinion. We tend to find properties with large gardens have a natural break where the owner cares for his or her garden up to a point. Beyond that point is left with either over grown vegitation or old toys and bikes.

As for the question why should we do anything with the land thats simple. No ones making any more of it. Property developers are being asked to create tens of thousands of new properties each year. However green belt land is strictly out of bounds therefore we have to look inwards for land. The only places to find these are parks (which developers tend to stop away from) and back gardens (brown field sites). This has caused huge backlash with many people complaining.

If you have a large back garden and would like to down size the garden then pick up the telephone and call your local land developer to ask if they would be interested. You will of course benefit financially however that brings along a whole new thread as its a completly different kettle of fish.

I hope this post has helped people understand further the importants of large backgardens and the current role it plays in developing. Developing is not everybodies first thought and for some people its out of the question, I respect that and it is of course the individuals right to have their own opinion.

Verbatim

I have a huge garden, 120 ft ish long and the house was built in 1881.

Norma_Desmond

My house is a huge 200 year old beast - with the TINIEST, (most picturesque!) walled garden you can imagine. Still, there's plenty of room for a table and chairs and loads of plants in tubs......and living 200 yards from the beach and cliffs I AIN'T BOVVERED!

arthur_dent_2

I only have a front garden and with 2 children this makes life a little harder, espescially in the summer. A garden as has been previously said is vital. Children need them to play in and adults need them to relax in and if you are green fingered, to grow flowers and veggies in. They also provide places for the creepy crawlies to live and trees to grow.

There is not a single amount of money you could pay me to live in one of those nasty little houses that they build now, at least I have some garden and a field at the back of me, (not mine but it is better than seeing rows and rows of miniscule houses).