What ho!
I was half listening to a radio discussion on the subject of water getting
into the soil last week; it was mainly about tarmaccing over front gardens
for
car parking and what it did to the flood risk. I mean we UKTCers are well
ahead of the game on this one we've been discussing water for trees and the
effect of paved gardens and patios and whether it increases the flood or
subsidence risk for years haven't we?
However someone on the discussion pointed out that paving over a front
garden for car parking invariably cost 1.5 parking places on the street; the
access to the front garden uses up the street parking space. As cars don't
come in
sections (not like that anyway) this means you lose 2 parking spots on the
street if you pave over one front garden, so unless you're getting 2 parking
spots in the front garden you're worse off than when you started. I thought
to
myself; that's a useful little factoid, I'll spread it around.....
It further occurs to me that those insurance companies love you to park your
car off-street don't they? So effectively they're encouraging us to
contribute to their subsidence problems. Typical.
Bill.
PS. How do you spell tarmacking? This spell checker doesn't like either of
those....
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