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The developers strip all the topsoil from the new estates and sell it to the landscape suppliers. The new owners (after the estate is sold off) want gardens so they go to the suppliers and buy the soil back …almost everyone’s happy. … If you want something in addition to lawn (like a garden) then you can try no-dig gardening - layers of wet paper or cardboard, layers of manure, layers of straw or cane mulch, then pockets of potting soil to poke the seedlings into to …