“A third of the UK is owned by 1,200 aristocrats and their families. Thirty-six thousand people, or 0.6 per cent of the population, own half of the rural land in England. Despite the widely held belief that Britain is ‘full’ and that it is in danger of being ‘concreted over’, only 6 per cent of the UK’s land use is classed as urban, with 94 per cent rural.”

“A third of the UK is owned by 1,200 aristocrats and their families. Thirty-six thousand people, or 0.6 per cent of the population, own half of the rural land in England. Despite the widely held belief that Britain is ‘full’ and that it is in danger of being ‘concreted over’, only 6 per cent of the UK’s land use is classed as urban, with 94 per cent rural.”

— John Higgs