[COLOR="#000000"]Kate Barker report.
The UK is empty!
Far too much land is given over to agriculture, about 78%, which only accounts for about 2.5% of the UK economy.
DATA ON LAND USAGE
The land cover of Great Britain is 23.5m hectares. Taken from the Office of National Statistics, in 2002, usage was as follows:
- Settled land - 1.8m hectares. 7.65% of the land mass.
- Agricultural land - 10.8m hectares. 45.96% of the land mass.
- Semi-natural land, with much uses as agricultural land - 7.0m hectares. 29.78% of the land mass.
- Woodland - 2.8m hectares. 11.91% of the land mass
- Water bodies - 0.3m hectares. 1.28% of the land mass.
- Sundry, largely transport infrastructure - 0.8m hectares. 3.42% of the land mass.