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5 live Report - Garden Grabbers
Summary : The 5 live Report investigates the loss of urban gardens and hears concerns that such developments undermine efforts to prevent further flooding and threaten communities.
Details : The 5 live Report investigates the loss of urban gardens and hears concerns that such developments undermine efforts to prevent further flooding and threaten communities.Across the country a battle is underway to save Britain's gardens. In the past few years, tens of thousands of lawns and shrubberies have been torn up to make way for executive flats and houses after the government re-classified gardens as brown-field sites ripe for development.
But now local residents are fighting back. The 5 live Report investigates the 'garden grabbing' phenomenon and hears concerns that it is undermining efforts to prevent further flooding and pushing some communities to breaking point.
Starts 2008-01-27 19:30:00, Ends 2008-01-27 20:00:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 5 Live
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