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Christine Eborall

Overflowing Grill

Weak front garden regulations make flooding worse

In 1995, the Conservative government under John Major designated pavement crossovers as ‘permitted development’. This fired the starting gun on the conversion of the nation’s front gardens to car parks.Nearly 30 years on, the consequences of this are all too apparent. In Ealing, as in most other London boroughs and urban and suburban areas throughout […]

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Greening Front Gardens

Everyone with a front garden has a great tool to counter the effects of climate change! By Christine Eborall, Ealing Front Gardens Project Like other suburbs, the London Borough of Ealing has a large number of front gardens (about 75,000), but many are paved or concreted over, usually for parking. But when you consider the

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