Originally Posted by
pablo42
Sorry WW, I never believe statistics.
The 7.5% of land settled is hard fact. It is not a wishy-washy figure.
We gotta use better what we got. It's not hard.
You still do not get it. We can only supply 14% of homes on brownfield sites. I was brought up with no green around me. I do not wish that on others, so some large money=grabbing landowners can stay rich. We need green inside urban areas.
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I don't think the large landowners are making vast profits.
Do not make it up. Read Who Owns Britain. Read the ST Rich list. The richest man in the UK is the Duke of Westminster, a rent taker. Large landowners are amongst the riches people in the UK, by doing nothing except take rent. Land Value Tax will sort that out. Only 0.66% of the population own 70% of the land. They are mainly large land owners.
We are being ripped off big style, yet few people realise it under a propaganda cloak of eco organisation like Friends of the Earth, and country organisation like The Countryside Alliance and The Council for the Protection of Rural England. Backed by large landowners. These are to keep townies out of the country and ensure large landowners keep their lucrative land.
I care more about the over 90% of people who are crammed into urban settlements, living in pokey, underinsulated super-expensive homes, because an artificial land shortage has been created.
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