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Continuous Urban Fabric - BBC's New Landscape Map
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9th November 2017
How much of the UK is continuous urban fabric? Buildings cover less of Britain than the land revealed when the tide goes out!
The answer is 0.1%. Only 5.9% of land space in the UK is built on. The BBC has published new maps looking a land use across the UK. Apparently Bradford is 0.3% continuous urban fabric and 11% peat bog. 1.4% of the country is covered in buildings; 99% of the UK is not covered in housing!
Check out the BBC Land Use Calculator
Is the UK full up? Are we concreting over too much of our precious green space?
— Mark Easton (@BBCMarkEaston) November 9, 2017
The truth about how we use our land. @BBCNews at 10 pic.twitter.com/Y5Ldzke62I
Did you know there is almost 100 times as much peat bog in the UK as there is continuous urban fabric? https://t.co/94W9Yx3lAr pic.twitter.com/qAShcRI37P
— FPCR (@FPCRltd) November 9, 2017
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