Various politicians - especially Conservative ones - will decry the kind of 'garden-grabbing' where houses are built on back gardens. For a flavour of this see:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23483456-details/Garden-grabbing+boom:+Number+of+homes+built+on+gardens+doubles+in+just+10+years/article.do
But how many of them will stick their heads over the parapet and attack the loss of numerous front gardens to car-parking? Answer : almost none. Why? Presumably because they're scared of alienating their car-addicted clientele.
Where I live in Barnehurst, I would estimate that in excess of 10% of the total garden area (including back gardens) has been lost to concrete and paving for car parking in recent years, over and above the 'original' driveway space that the properties all seem to have had from the outset. In contrast, there is no sign of garden-grabbing for housing - so which is doing more of the damage (loss of wildlife, loss of green character, increased flood risk) they're complaining about?
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