Land Use In Your Area

Deep_In_Debt

Built on 25%
Green Urban 13%
Farmland 53%
Natural 9%

I'm surprised at that. I thought Built on would be much higher. I'm Green Urban.

zagubov

I've only planted three trees in my life. I'd make tobacco companies and chelsea tractor manufacturers have to sign contracts to plant trees proportional to their sales (not their profits they're probably lying about that for tax purposes).

paddedjohn

43% Built on
16% Green
36% Farming
5% Nature

Does the built on percentage include enclosed gardens/yards belonging to the properties? There are many properties around Wirral with large gardens.

moneyistooshorttomention

paddedjohn wrote: »

Does the built on percentage include enclosed gardens/yards belonging to the properties? There are many properties around Wirral with large gardens.

Now there's a question....but I would assume so (particularly as this is a modern-day measuring system - and they must know what people are like for building extensions in their gardens and garden-grabbing - so gardens arent "safe" anymore).

Add the fact that gardens arent accessible to other people and I would guess the basic gist of this exercise is to see how much land is basically accessible in one form or another to the rest of us (if only at the level of growing our food). Though a lot of farmland has public footpaths across it - so we have some direct access to it.

nimbo

Built on 24
Green urban 7
Farmland 64
Natural 5

South Yorkshire.

Davesnave

paddedjohn wrote: »

Does the built on percentage include enclosed gardens/yards belonging to the properties? There are many properties around Wirral with large gardens.

Rather than make up an answer (!) I will quote what the BBC article says:

Methodology

The largest component of the "built on" category is "discontinuous urban fabric", within which 20-50% of the surface area may be green space. To account for this we have reassigned the minimum 20% of "discontinuous urban fabric" to "green urban", which in many cases may be an underestimate. The map uses building land cover data from Ordnance Survey.

GaleSF63

Built on <1%
Green urban <1%
Farmland 10%
Natural 89%

Argyll and Bute.

The_Real_Cheddar_Bob

Built on: 5%
Green Urban: 2%
Farmland: 90%
Natural: 3%

Nothing like the countryside

The_Real_Cheddar_Bob

wychavon that is

Davesnave

GaleSF63 wrote: »

Built on <1%
Green urban <1%
Farmland 10%
Natural 89%

Argyll and Bute.

Yes, that would be me, given half a chance. Part of my family lived there at one time: Rothesay and Toward, near Dunoon.

But all the youngsters went south!