You are reading a single comment by @hugo7 and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
hugo7
This has been discussed before, but I'm really not sure about an outright ban on artificial grass. We had some in our last place and it constituted about 2 x 3m of a garden that was roughly 5 x 10m, the rest was trees, raised beds, flowerbeds pots and some patio. We'd tried to maintain a lawn and it wasn't sustainable, so our options for that area, in order to make it something we could actually use, was paving or artificial grass. Given that we lived in an area of London that had increasingly regular flooding problems, impermeable slabs didn't seem like a very friendly option and if fake grass looks shit so does having a garden that looks like a car park (like some of our neighbours' did).
I think there's a strong case to be made for garden designers to move away from it and to find other ways of discouraging its use, but pretending that everyone is making a choice between artificial grass and a bee-friendly flower meadow is pretty unrealistic.