On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 15:54:33 +0100, Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at 14:07:09 on Thu, 30 Aug
2012, News remarked:
With only about 7.5% of the land settled,
7.5%? Where did you get that figure from?
I'd like to know that as well. Seems a bit high to me.

Do farms not count as settled?
In this context, only the part with the farmhouse on it.
Why? Settled land means that thats lived on. That doesn't just mean
the house it means all land under the same deeds. Otherwise you can't
count gardens as settled land either.

As I wrote, then only 2.5 % of the UK is under masonry.

So it's 2.5% under a house or concrete, and 5% in people's gardens?

Those who think that fields can just be built on ad lib should ask themselves where the food is to come from. We cannot
rely solely on imports, as the population rises in countries that normally export their surpluses. Soylent Green,
anyone? Land is also required for recreation and nature (unless you want to destroy national parks), transport, schools
and hospitals, shops, offices and factories, mines, reservoirs.