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Encourage better use of front gardens
More and more front gardens around here are now being completely paved over, leaving an ever-growing acreage of blank and wasted space. Often it's just that people are too busy to garden, or don't know how. A guerrilla gardening effort or volunteer team could make a real difference by greening these gardens – creating more drainage for excess rain, more food and shelter for wildlife (birds and insects), improving the air quality, and generally making the neighbourhood more attractive and cheering. Perhaps financial grants or more competitions for 'best front garden' (I know there is one, but it gets little attention) would also help. Also people without gardens of their own might really benefit from helping with this, and it would bring people together in a fruitful way.
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Community Member 4 years agoI would ban the concreting/ paving over of front and back gardens - the city is over concreted as it is. A small handful of seed of wild flowers for bees and butterflies would transform the smallest pocket of earth into a natural life cycle...
Show full commentI would ban the concreting/ paving over of front and back gardens - the city is over concreted as it is. A small handful of seed of wild flowers for bees and butterflies would transform the smallest pocket of earth into a natural life cycle space.
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