Business Parks

Visited Stockley Park opposite Heathrow Airport yesterday afternoon (to look at the hedges!)

I can't warm to business parks, no matter how well landscaped they are.

Does anyone appreciate attractive surroundings outside when working, or is it counterproductive?

It just reminded me of "The Office". There was nobody about on foot, just car park after car park full of shiny new cars, enclosed by clipped hedges (albeit attractive clipped hedges) - In fact everything was clipped, the trees, the hedges, everything. Presumably it was intentional to create an crisp businesslike atmosphere? I don't know, but it just reminded me of an architects model, blown up to human scale.

If you want to disguise cars, why not just paint them in camouflage colours so they blend in, or horror of horrors, impose car sharing so there aren't so many of them?

Dickie