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Thu 05 May 2004Gardens gobbled up in development surgeProperties with large gardens in good suburbs are achieving incredible prices because of their development potential as planners allow for higher housing densities. Edel Morgan reportsThe staggering €45 million paid for Chesterfield, the Blackrock home on 8.8 acres of the late co-founder of Roadstone, Tom Roche, shows how far developers are prepared to go to get their diggers on a piece of valuable infill land in Dublin.