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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Trees are a luxury, growing something like that takes time. I hope they really have a good reason for doing what they did.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

And a public good. They keep things cooler when it's really hot out, keep things warmer when it's really cool out, mildly improve air quality, reduces noise pollution, provide measurable mental health benefits, and so on.

Around here removing big trees is illegal, on your property or not. I'm a fan.

Open soil instead of pavement also helps reduce flooding during heavy rainfall since the ground absorbs water instead of just making it run off to somewhere else.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The reason is probably "raking is work." I see this shit all the time in Florida, where we really need more shade trees.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Do not understand people who rake. Do the trees in the forest need their leaves raked? Then why do it?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Considering they also took out the shrubs I’m betting not, though that tree closest to the house the roots may have been affecting the foundation I guess.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago

Just steal the image and put the source in the body text. That way you're not redirecting everyone to reddit. Sort of defeats the purpose of the protests.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It legit looks like half of the weed dispensaries in my city. Who tf would actually do that to their home tho

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

I feel like the car in the picture is important context. I'm thinking that the home was turned into a business, and the pavement is for parking

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the rare parking without any car access.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Look again.

Here's the property on Zoopla.

Turns out I was wrong. It's a residence.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Wow, it's even worse than I imagined on the inside. Not one ounce of good taste.

But yeah, none of that pavement is accessible to cars except for the ramp where the range is parked.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

It's like they heard lawns were bad for the environment, but stopped listening at the part about replacing it with native plants.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why don't they like trees?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Capitalism has drained their soul. They don't think artistically. They don't think about nature. They don't see beauty. Their art is corporate art.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Capitalism is when ugly house

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

It should actually be an offence for someone to do this. That change from garden to hard standing will cause issues with any drains and probably cause flooding.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I would have left the trees alone, but removed the grass and covered it with small black and grey stones. That way the trees would still look nice, and the rain water can still pass through the rocks and prevent flooding, unlike this mess. This looks like a business now, it’s not a home anymore.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

pass through the rocks and prevent flooding

Yah, that doesn't work that way. Water needs to get pulled into plants or water channels created by dead plant root systems, or it just runs off. This is why deserts have flash floods.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Never understood homes that pave/block out all the greenery; makes the home depressing af all for saving some 30min of upkeep per week.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

You don't even need that. Personally a overgrown garden looks better than no garden.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

🎵 They paved paradise and put up a parking lot 🎵

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Just before the previous owners of my house decided to put the house on the market they painted all wood inside (stairs, doors, door frames, window frames, skirting) pitch black.

Yes thanks, I enjoy living in a cave. Removing, sanding and painting all that will take me 100s of hours.

Oh, and it was done with the cheapest paint possible while painting over all hinges, locks and sometimes windows.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

They're covering the blood spatters. And needed to do it fast and cheap.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

It's been ruined.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Range Rover... checks out.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

now its a gulag

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sure they didn't turn it into a shop? Those definitely look like they were made into display windows

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In Australia it would be a 15-storey block of incredibly substandard flats lol

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Dendrophobia? Agrostophobia? Botanophobia? All 3 wrapped into one tangle of neurosis?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I mean I hate lawns as much as the next person, but I don't think the solution is to salt the earth and cover it in concrete.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

"Bad" taste for "bad" people 🤷‍♀️

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

100% agree this is a terrible looking house- I think the function of the raised platform must be because it's on a dangerous corner or intersection, so it acts as a safety structure from vehicles. They would've gotten special planning permission to do something like that.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Maybe the new owners are allergic to nature? 🙃

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What a waste. I'm so glad with way to much green in the garden now it's 30c + outside, it's so much cooler.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I just felt bad about what I did to my world in factorio for the first time ever :/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

It’s not the house for me, it’s the garden…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

People are focusing on the house in the middle, but if you look at he whole picture, it isn't that one house. It's every single house on both streets. It's not just this specific owner. If this were the US, I'd suspect a HOA at work.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I found a real estate listing for the house (yes, you could own this beauty), but I don't know if posting it would count as doxxing per community rules, so I won't. In any case, this is not a business.

They want £300k+. Based on what was written, the whole idea was minimal maintenance and maximum room for parking. The back yard/back "garden" is the same as the front: just a bunch of tile. The interior is less offensive, but just what you'd expect: very modern, lots of black and white and bold shapes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

and maximum room for parking

Yet another example of what car-brain does to a person.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I personally don't like it, but I respect their right to do whatever the fuck they want with their property. If they want a fugly house, then that's their right.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Honestly, no. At least where I live, they're finally starting to do something against gravel gardens. They are illegal here (have been for decades but no-one did anything against it) and they're absolutely terrible for the environment and destroying green space (additionally to them being very bad for bees and further sealing the floor which is awful when any flood happens). Luckily people shouldn't be able to do absolutely everything they want if it hurts everyone so much.

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