The Primrose Path?

The Dutch can make a sport out of anything. They have the new craze of NK Tegelwippen ('tile whipping'). Locations are effectively competing to see how many garden paving slabs they can remove. This is an excellent idea, as it allows more plants to grow, increasing biodiversity. It also reduces the chance of rain-associated flooding, by allowing water to be absorbed. The current Dutch leader is Venlo (in Limburg), where they have managed to junk 14,636 tiles. That's 144 per thousand residents. Amsterdam, in stark contrast, has only achieved 2 ( https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/04/we-need-to-accept-the-weeds-dutch-towns-compete-to-remove-the-most-garden-paving). It would be beneficial to do something similar in all urban European areas. That might, however, be difficult in the UK, where there's currently a trend of converting gardens into hard standing, to park cars.