{"id":19222,"date":"2018-01-30T10:43:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T09:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=19222"},"modified":"2020-07-08T13:56:39","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T12:56:39","slug":"good-news-83-uks-population-uk-not-concreted","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=19222","title":{"rendered":"Good news for 83% of the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s population – the UK has not been concreted over!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ViewThe news that the percentage of the UK land area that is densely built upon is 0.1%<\/strong> has won the title of UK Statistic of the Year, under a new initiative from the Royal Statistical Society \u00e2\u20ac\u201c from nominations made by members of the public and the organisation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s members.<\/p>\n

The statistic comes from a report by Professor Alasdair Rae, of the University of Sheffield\u00c2\u00a0A Land Cover Atlas of the United Kingdom<\/em> which was published in November 2017 using Corine Land Cover data from 2012.<\/p>\n

The 0.1% of land areas considered to be CUF (made up of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dccontinuous urban fabric\u00e2\u20ac\u2122) are those that are most densely populated – where at least 80% of ground is impermeable and comprises buildings, roads and other artificial surfaces.\u00c2\u00a0 The alternative DUF (\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcdiscontinuous urban fabric\u00e2\u20ac\u2122) accounts for just over 5.3%, and in fact only 5.4% of UK land is considered \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcurban\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 at all.<\/p>\n

Pasture land (28.7%) and non-irrigated arable land (27%) accounts for most of the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s landscape, while peat bogs (9.4%), moors and heathland (7.5%), natural grassland (5.8%), coniferous forest (5.1%) and broadleaf forest (2.1%) make up between them nearly a third of the landmass.\"\"<\/p>\n

The report reveals the UK local authority areas with the highest percentage of each land cover class. In London, the City of London has the highest percentage of CUF (97.6%) and Lewisham the highest percentage of DUF (87%).\u00c2\u00a0 Westminster has most land classified as \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcgreen urban\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (21.1%) largely because of its royal parks.\u00c2\u00a0 Richmond upon Thames is classified as nearly 41% \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsport and leisure\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (golf clubs). Hammersmith and Fulham is 6.3% road and rail networks.<\/p>\n

The statistic might come as something of a surprise to those of us among 83% of the UK population who live in urban areas.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, a recent Ipsos MORI online survey of the British public revealed that the percentage of UK land that was densely built on was thought to be on average 47%!<\/p>\n

Back to January 2018 Newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n

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