Concrete Jungle

There are always lots of fields when you look down from a plane. The problem is we need the fields to produce the food we need. The reason why the nation feels so crowded is because people don't want to live in fields. They tend to migrate to the towns and cities and places that used to be villages are now towns in their own right. Where I live is a prime example.
As the towns expand outwards they take up the green spaces around them and we all know what the first green space on the edge of town is...
 
Jensen said:
All I know is that it was a great song by The Specials
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Exactly what I was going to post when I saw the thread. Saw them play a couple of years back - absolutely brilliant. Definitely not a case of too much too young.
 
Interesting that according to that article, all the buildings in the UK take up the same amount of space as all the golf courses.
 
Where I live it shows that 92% is farmland. That is why there are so few open spaces to go for a walk compared to where I used to live in Surrey
 
Sweep said:
There are always lots of fields when you look down from a plane. The problem is we need the fields to produce the food we need. The reason why the nation feels so crowded is because people don't want to live in fields. They tend to migrate to the towns and cities and places that used to be villages are now towns in their own right. Where I live is a prime example.
As the towns expand outwards they take up the green spaces around them and we all know what the first green space on the edge of town is...
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EXPAND !!!!! Not where I live. They build in the most inaccessable places and squeeze in as many houses as they can so the centre is becoming completely congested. I used to b able to whizz around in the afternoons in my car. Not anymore. The roads are rammed 8am to 8pm.
 
jim8flog said:
Where I live it shows that 92% is farmland. That is why there are so few open spaces to go for a walk compared to where I used to live in Surrey
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Type in Highlands.......from memory 29% farming about 1% housing and recreation....the rest is wild land.
Surprised how low farming is unless they are just including cultivated land.
 
Crazyface said:
EXPAND !!!!! Not where I live. They build in the most inaccessable places and squeeze in as many houses as they can so the centre is becoming completely congested. I used to b able to whizz around in the afternoons in my car. Not anymore. The roads are rammed 8am to 8pm.
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New towns/cities are the answer, like Milton Keynes and Livingston, sited away from overpopulated areas.
 
MegaSteve said:
Which is [seemingly] not what folk want...
Everybody and their mate appears to want to live inside the poxy M25..

Despite Londoners being incapable of walking in a straight line ;):(...
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Well, virtually every job vacancy email I get is for a vacancy inside the M25. Even though I have 30 mile radius of Bristol in my search criteria!

I haven't worked with 100 miles of my house since 2009!
 
Not too clever for my city, 58% built on with only 1% natural and 17% green, I think were full!!
 
Doon frae Troon said:
Type in Highlands.......from memory 29% farming about 1% housing and recreation....the rest is wild land.
Surprised how low farming is unless they are just including cultivated land.
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Any rough or hill grazing is under 'natural' as are grouse moors, windfarms and commercial forestry by the look of it. None of those are what you'd call natural land in most countries but have a natural element within them. Doubt there is any true wilderness in UK i.e. has been unaffected by human activity directly or indirectly.
 
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maxfli65 said:
Any rough or hill grazing is under 'natural' as are grouse moors, windfarms and commercial forestry by the look of it. None of those are what you'd call natural land in most countries but have a natural element within them. Doubt there is any true wilderness in UK i.e. has been unaffected by human activity directly or indirectly.
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I agree. I have Canadian friends who tell me you can just disappear for as long as you like in their wilderness and never see another human. Since the break up of the Soviet Union I believe it is the worlds largest country, 41 times the size of the UK with just a little over half our population.
Sweden is almost twice the size of the UK but we have 7 times more people.
On that basis, I think we are full.
 
maxfli65 said:
Any rough or hill grazing is under 'natural' as are grouse moors, windfarms and commercial forestry by the look of it. None of those are what you'd call natural land in most countries but have a natural element within them. Doubt there is any true wilderness in UK i.e. has been unaffected by human activity directly or indirectly.
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http://www.theflowcountry.org.uk/
I think this will meet your standards.

I live on the edge of the Galloway Forrest where an approximate 400 sq miles of land has a population level of 10 per sq mile.
It takes 40 minutes to drive through the single track road that bisects it and if you pass half a dozen cars it would be rush hour.:lol:
 
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