Ah, the old passing the buck into the consumer trick.
“Could” is journo code for ‘I know that this won’t happen, but I want to post some speculation anyway as it’s good for clicks’.
How about you focus on companies pumping shit into the waterways to make a few more bob
As has been said, “could” is doing some heavy lifting. But this wouldn’t be a bad idea. We should also subsidise farmers to rewild land, and the government should lean on the King to do the same with Crown property (which he may well be in favour of, tbf).
Let me guess, those with 5 acres or less need not apply.
Brits claim to love wildlife.
Ask those same brits to leave a patch of dandelions and to not use weedkiller.
Hint – theres no such thing as a weed
I said this was the reason for flooding, too many people have that awful market stall fake grass now which causes drainage issues
Currently planning to add patio, I’m keeping as much grass as I can and plan to make it an insect haven once I don’t need it as a lawn.
I need the grass space for family stuff for now but personally I’m not a fan of lawns.
We basically need to enforce this across the UK, and rewild as much land as possible. The paving over of everything, with fake lawns and constantly mowed grass is a behaviour that we need to change.
The UK has a biodiversity crisis which could wreak havoc on our food supply if we continue to do nothing about it.
I could leave my front garden as it is and maybe get a little bit of my water bill in some undetetermined period of time, or I could turn it into a driveway and save £15 a day.
Good luck with that. I support this wholeheartedly but people will never give up their cars and with street parking so dire in many areas, more and more people are likely to tarmac over their drives. So many drives near me are a concrete wasteland, housing the owner’s five cars. A small discount on their water bill is not going to entice them when they clearly have more than enough money to afford to fuel a fleet of cars.
Grow yourself a clover lawn, needs mowing maybe two or three times during the summer, hard wearing for kids running round playing football, and the bee’s are unreal! I sit in the garden to have a coffee in the morning and there’s dozens of them buzzing round in the summer. Traditional grass lawns are such a pain and you can never really get a small lawn looking nice without loads of chemicals.
What does having a paved front yard have to do with anything? It’s a cop out.
Think about it, if everything is paved over your using less water for the plants you don’t have.
Here in the Netherlands they are encouraging that too. Here you can get a subsidy if you can disconnect you drain pipes from the sewer and collect the rain from your roof in above ground or below ground, with for example barrels.
I won’t pave over my garden. I can’t pave and I don’t have a garden
Can I get a discount if I take a pickaxe to other paved areas? I would happily replace them with anything that isn’t concrete, plastic or monoculture grass.
Actually, I have wondered if we should make some kind of water storage in the corner of the driveway. The middle of the gravel driveway is lower than the surrounding edges so it pools with water anyway. I have made a walkway already so it doesn’t bother me. The walkway is higher than the edge so once water gets that high it will flow at quite a rate onto the road, as the driveway is a fair sized area collecting water.
But I would be interested in ~~digging it all up and replacing the cars with apple trees~~ digging a deep hole in the corner, which would collect all the water first. Then just submerge a watering can or bucket in the water to collect and use. Burying a shallow waterbutt could work, the gravel is completely permeable given that its gravel, so just need to make sure an opening is low enough for water to flow in, could bury it so the top is just below the level of the gravel.
Ok maybe minecraft has influenced me too much, I kinda like digging. But the idea of water collection and storing it entirely/mostly underground is something I find pretty interesting. Surface waterbutts are ok, but if its buried underground you can use that space for other things. Importantly, should be something I can do myself with hand tools and without concrete ideally.
Good, good. Any time I see a paved over garden it makes me dead sad. I have a neighbour that not only paved over their front garden, but also chopped down a large old tree in their back garden that I used to watch the birds from.
It was a grand old neighbourhood tree. So sad. Some people just really hate anything natural they can’t control. I call them the vogons.
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Ah, the old passing the buck into the consumer trick.
“Could” is journo code for ‘I know that this won’t happen, but I want to post some speculation anyway as it’s good for clicks’.
How about you focus on companies pumping shit into the waterways to make a few more bob
As has been said, “could” is doing some heavy lifting. But this wouldn’t be a bad idea. We should also subsidise farmers to rewild land, and the government should lean on the King to do the same with Crown property (which he may well be in favour of, tbf).
Let me guess, those with 5 acres or less need not apply.
Brits claim to love wildlife.
Ask those same brits to leave a patch of dandelions and to not use weedkiller.
Hint – theres no such thing as a weed
I said this was the reason for flooding, too many people have that awful market stall fake grass now which causes drainage issues
Currently planning to add patio, I’m keeping as much grass as I can and plan to make it an insect haven once I don’t need it as a lawn.
I need the grass space for family stuff for now but personally I’m not a fan of lawns.
We basically need to enforce this across the UK, and rewild as much land as possible. The paving over of everything, with fake lawns and constantly mowed grass is a behaviour that we need to change.
The UK has a biodiversity crisis which could wreak havoc on our food supply if we continue to do nothing about it.
I could leave my front garden as it is and maybe get a little bit of my water bill in some undetetermined period of time, or I could turn it into a driveway and save £15 a day.
Good luck with that. I support this wholeheartedly but people will never give up their cars and with street parking so dire in many areas, more and more people are likely to tarmac over their drives. So many drives near me are a concrete wasteland, housing the owner’s five cars. A small discount on their water bill is not going to entice them when they clearly have more than enough money to afford to fuel a fleet of cars.
Grow yourself a clover lawn, needs mowing maybe two or three times during the summer, hard wearing for kids running round playing football, and the bee’s are unreal! I sit in the garden to have a coffee in the morning and there’s dozens of them buzzing round in the summer. Traditional grass lawns are such a pain and you can never really get a small lawn looking nice without loads of chemicals.
What does having a paved front yard have to do with anything? It’s a cop out.
Think about it, if everything is paved over your using less water for the plants you don’t have.
Here in the Netherlands they are encouraging that too. Here you can get a subsidy if you can disconnect you drain pipes from the sewer and collect the rain from your roof in above ground or below ground, with for example barrels.
I won’t pave over my garden. I can’t pave and I don’t have a garden
Can I get a discount if I take a pickaxe to other paved areas? I would happily replace them with anything that isn’t concrete, plastic or monoculture grass.
Actually, I have wondered if we should make some kind of water storage in the corner of the driveway. The middle of the gravel driveway is lower than the surrounding edges so it pools with water anyway. I have made a walkway already so it doesn’t bother me. The walkway is higher than the edge so once water gets that high it will flow at quite a rate onto the road, as the driveway is a fair sized area collecting water.
But I would be interested in ~~digging it all up and replacing the cars with apple trees~~ digging a deep hole in the corner, which would collect all the water first. Then just submerge a watering can or bucket in the water to collect and use. Burying a shallow waterbutt could work, the gravel is completely permeable given that its gravel, so just need to make sure an opening is low enough for water to flow in, could bury it so the top is just below the level of the gravel.
Ok maybe minecraft has influenced me too much, I kinda like digging. But the idea of water collection and storing it entirely/mostly underground is something I find pretty interesting. Surface waterbutts are ok, but if its buried underground you can use that space for other things. Importantly, should be something I can do myself with hand tools and without concrete ideally.
Good, good. Any time I see a paved over garden it makes me dead sad. I have a neighbour that not only paved over their front garden, but also chopped down a large old tree in their back garden that I used to watch the birds from.
It was a grand old neighbourhood tree. So sad. Some people just really hate anything natural they can’t control. I call them the vogons.