‘Where have all our front gardens gone?’: Sydney’s supersized driveways eat into yards

Homes in Winston Hills, Parramatta, show how front gardens become smaller after redevelopments. Photograph: Cities

Sydney’s increasingly supersized driveways are shrinking suburban front yards as residential redevelopment accelerates, a research paper has found.

The research, which details the loss of private tree space due to knock-down-rebuilds, lays bare the gaps in the planning system for minimum private green space standards.