By Debra Bela - Courier Mai, Brisbane - General News - Page 24
IT WAS home to the Hills hoist, the cricket pitch, the ramshackle treehouse and the makeshift water slide.
But is the humble Aussie backyard, the place where so many cricketers launched their careers, really dead?
With block sizes shrinking and new residential developments opting for central parks over traditional big backyards, some experts believe the patch of dirt where so many family memories were made could be a thing of the past.
With block sizes shrinking and new residential developments opting for central parks over traditional big backyards, some experts believe the patch of dirt where so many family memories were made could be a thing of the past.
"It might be having a feature tile that may not be to everybody's taste but the client is the one that lives with it so they get the final say, a collection of garden gnomes or a bespoke piece of furniture." Place Advisory director Lachlan Walker said that, while homeowners still valued outdoor spaces, the statistics indicated a changing demographic, where families had less time to maintain bigger backyards and were more accepting of smaller lots.