It's happening! (View Post)

About half of the front-facing semis/ground floor flats around me have done it. There was one original garden tended to by an 80-year old - roses, a plum tree, beech hedge, beautiful decorative brick… (View Post)

Oh I agree. Indeed, the lack of trees in Edinburgh's New Town is deliberate - to show off the gorgeous architecture. You fill the shared garden in the square/circus with them instead. But for th… (View Post)

I actually agree in principle with this. But the issue is these developers have a massive economies of scale compared with your Grand Designs couple. And we also have homogeneity across London, Edinb… (View Post)

You could improve the new housing estates by planting proper hedges and trees. You don't realise how much work they are doing to improve older estates until your neighbour cuts them down and tur… (View Post)