Residents on an affluent road in Kent have been divided over a hosepipe ban, with some free to water their gardens while others are forced to let them die. One cluster of houses on Hosey Common Road, Westerham, fall under SES Water, which has no restrictions in place on the street. Meanwhile, residents just a one-minute drive away on the same road are governed by Thames Water, which imposed an open-ended ban last week. This means that while some homeowners on the street - where houses are worth an average of £873,750 - boast luscious gardens with plentiful flowerbeds and greener lawns, others have seen their perfectly pruned gardens shrivel up into a desert. It comes as water companies across Britain have rolled out temporary hosepipe bans, with half of England placed into drought amid 35C temperatures. Westerham residents governed by Thames Water said they have started saving water from their bath in a desperate bid to preserve it - while neighbours doors down can soak their lawns, fill up paddling pools and wash their cars with a hosepipe. Jane Ferdinando, 58, who lives two doors away from the last house controlled by the ban, told the Daily Mail: 'We haven't been using our hosepipe. We save our bath water.'Her husband Tony, 71, added: 'Not for the lawn but for the vegetable patch, and to try and keep some of the main things that we don't want to lose. But a lot of the stuff we're just leaving.' Residents at the bottom of Hosey Common Road around Hosey Hill (circled red) are under a strict hosepipe ban with Thames Water. A one-minute drive away on the same road (circled green), homeowners governed by SES Water can use their hosepipes as they please Houses further up Hosey Common Road, which are not under a hosepipe ban, have greener gardens An aerial view shows the brown lawns belonging to a cluster of homeowners on Hosey Hill, Hosey Common Road, governed by Thames Water Jane and Tony Ferdinand live right on the boundary and are governed by Thames Water. They have been using their bath water in a desperate bid to save their garden