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Lost Gardens of Suburbia

Episode 2 of 27

Designer Joe Swift finds out how important our urban back gardens are and asks if there are any pioneering alternatives to the traditional back garden.

Great Britain's one million acres of private gardens are under threat as an estimated 20,000 new homes are built every year in back gardens grabbed by developers. Garden Grabbing exploits a loophole in the current law which classes private gardens as brownfield not greenfield sites. Designer Joe Swift finds out just how important our urban back gardens are and asks if there are any pioneering alternatives, both here and abroad, to the traditional back garden.

1 hour

Last on

Sat 24 Nov 2007 20:30

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Presenter Joe Swift

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