I'm astounded by how hot the street is!

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It's been boiling all week so I've been taking the dogs out at night into a couple of feilds near by. It's really hot on the walk down the street but as soon as I hit the feild the temperature drops dramatically. I needed jeans and a jumper over there.
However I'm now sat in the garden in need of a fan. And crossing the road the heat just jumped up again!

I know that urban areas are warmer than the countryside but walking from one to the other and back again has shocked me, it's so cool over there and I'm stuck in my house and garden absolutely boiling. I'm struggling to settle. I just feel so annoyed that this isn't considered in urban planning.
We have ad about 5 new housing estates built near to us in the last 15 years (with more to come) and the gardens are so small, front gardens are basically non existent and the lack of trees for shade make walking through in the day virtually impossible. It's still so hot at night.

No aibu really just fancied a bit of a chat about it.

I think the new estates being built are just dead space for wildlife. It seems that they plant a few plants that attract bees and pretend they're doing their bit for the environment (Eddington in Cambridge being a good example).

I know that there was lots of building between the wars but those houses generally had very large gardens, which overall create a huge space for wildlife. That's far better than huge fields of wheat with few hedgerows.

I currently have a house with a tiny garden and plastic grass (nothing to do with me) and it's pretty soul-destroying. I see it as a large balcony and not a garden at all. I'm moving soon and the main selling point for my new house was the lovely mature trees on the road. I'm praying they have preservation orders.

I have a well planted front and back garden, both smallish. It's cool and comfortable around my house and gardens unless you're in full sun. I visited a client's house earlier on. Front and back areas paved/fake grass. It was sweltering, including inside the house. Couldn't wait to get home. Natural grass, trees and shrubs make all the difference it seems.