Land Use In Your Area

michaels

I found it frustrating that there was no zoom, to me what matters is within a few hundred metres of where you live not the fact that there are some farms 5 miles away.

Fosterdog

michaels wrote: »

I found it frustrating that there was no zoom, to me what matters is within a few hundred metres of where you live not the fact that there are some farms 5 miles away.

But surely you know that anyway, just take a five minute walk and you’ll know what is within a few hundred metres of where you live. Or have a look on Google Earth if you really want to zoom in on the area.

elverson

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

There's also our own personal ratios of what we feel comfortable with and I'd hazard a guess that my own personal ratio would probably be set at around 30% built on, a lot more green urban space and a decent amount of natural space. Personally - I'm not bothered about what level of farmland is around me personally (it could be loads or pretty much non-existent) - as long as the country as a whole has plenty of farmland (as I'd like us to be able to be more self-sufficient for food).

There are different ways to provide that - if you built a few high rise blocks that would provide a lot of housing and leave plenty of open land (Alton West by Richmond Park is a good example of this) when compared to a whole field of two-storey houses with the same population.

Cyclizine

Built on <1%
Green urban <1%
Farmland 8%
Natural 91%

Sounds about right

NaughtiusMaximus

AdrianC wrote: »

It uses the postcode to identify your local authority area, and then gives the overall figure for that local authority.

Slightly disappointing it doesn't go down further, maybe to the first half of the postcode. Mine's:

Built on 52%
Green urban 19%
Farmland 27%
Natural 2%

Grenage

70% Built on
16% Green urban
13% Farmland
1% Natural

Welcome to Portsmouth!

ProDave

Built on <1%
Green Urban <`1%
Farmland 8%
Natural 91%

But it only gives a figure for the "Highlands" with no ability to look in more detail where I actually live, so not very helpful.

Waterlily24

Built on 5%
Green Urban 1%
Farmland 90%
Natural 3%

Adds up to 99%

Where we were before just a few miles away

Built on 3%
Green Urban 1%
Farmland 94%
Natural 3%

Adds up to 101% lol

michaels

Fosterdog wrote: »

But surely you know that anyway, just take a five minute walk and you’ll know what is within a few hundred metres of where you live. Or have a look on Google Earth if you really want to zoom in on the area.

Being a housing snob what matters is whether I live in a green urban or built on bit of town.....

bouicca21

I assumed green urban was parks and public open space. But of course I already knew that I lived in a built up area with lots of parks and that further down south was green belt farmland.