‘Horrible’ £295,000 house slammed after lawn paved over for FOUR ‘parking spaces’ and even ‘double yellow’ along patio edge

A house on the market for £295,000 has been slammed as a ‘hideous’ example of the modern British love affair with paving over gardens – with the pattern around the patio likened to a series of ‘double yellow’ lines.

The four-bedroom house in Uddingston, North Lanarkshire, is described on the Rightmove page as having ‘easy to maintain, wraparound gardens that are a mix of a single-block driveway and a decorative chip’.

But social media users have derided the house, which sits in the middle of the fully paved area, as a ‘boring landscape’, likening the grounds to an ‘NCP car park’ and as a ‘posh prison garden’.

Images of the house were shared on an account dedicated to the ‘failure’ of urban planning on X, formerly Twitter; one user took photos of the house as it was in 2009, with lush green gardens, a backyard and a double driveway on the side.

It is unclear when the work will be completed. The municipality received a complaint in October 2019 about the boundary wall that had been placed around the house.

Spot the difference: the house in Uddingston, North Lanarkshire as it is today (left) and as it was in 2010 (right)

An aerial view of the house shows how much paving and gravel has been laid around the house – and the distinctive paving some have likened to double yellow lines

The house is located on the corner of two streets in the Scottish city, hidden in gravel and pavement

Archive footage shows that before the owners’ renovation there was a double driveway on this site – with the entire site now covered in stone

One user joked that the owners want to ‘live in a roundabout’, while others expressed concerns about water drainage.

“Three bedrooms, three bathrooms, four parking garages,” another tweeter teased.

A third said: ‘I really thought covering gardens was now banned due to the effects of run-off versus rain being absorbed by the ground?

‘I wonder if the local planning authority is aware of this horror?’

Others were equally unkind, labeling the paving a ‘massacre’, paying particular attention to the patio’s distinctive pattern, which resembles double yellow lines.

“Why do they have parking restrictions on the back patio?” one critic joked.

Another replied: ‘I think this is because no one can tell the difference between their back garden and the road so they have to stop people parking there.’

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However, on the property’s Rightmove listing, the outside space is described as ‘easy to maintain, wraparound gardens, which are a mix of a one-piece driveway and a decorative chip.

‘Both front and rear and fully enclosed, making this ideal for a family and pets.’

The house, the real estate agent adds, is ‘unexpectedly back on the market’.

Rightmove data shows the property last sold in 2020 for £250,000, and previously sold in 2018 for £210,000. Records of Scotland records also show the house sold in 2017, 2008 and 2007, and in 1995 for £98,500.

The owners of the home were not available for comment when contacted.

The house is the latest in a long line of modern renovations that have seen the grassy surroundings replaced with parking spaces, artificial grass and new cladding.

A house in Worcester was described as a ‘Miller & Carter Steakhouse’ after the garden was covered in gravel and artificial grass.

And in Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, a homeowner was blasted after building an ‘excessive’ extension that partially obscured a historic railway arch.

The Royal Horticultural Society has been warning for years about the need for ‘green Gray Britain’.

It is estimated that 4.5 million homes now have no plants growing in the garden, while a quarter of all homes have a paved front garden.

Researchers believe that homeowners pave their yards to reduce the amount of maintenance they have to do around the house and to make room for more cars – but end up causing themselves bigger problems.

The RHS claims that paved gardens increase the amount of rainwater runoff by as much as 50 percent, increasing the risk of localized flooding during periods of heavy rain.

In addition, concrete and other hard surfaces absorb more heat than grass and emit it at night, making the atmosphere hot and stuffy.