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@jamesqf Nice picture. What it seems to be showing is some lights. What we're talking about is how much of the UK is built on. I've presented hard data that shows the percentage of the UK built on is very small. The data shows that we could build a great many more houses without turning the UK in a suburban sprawl from sea to sea. That was your original posit; the data shows it to be incorrect. By all means look at pictures of lights, but the data has spoken. If you want to change your topic to be about pictures of lights; well, that's a different topic.

@mark I'm using the same definition as these people: ipsos.com/ipsos-mori/en-uk/… Roughly, "continous urban fabric"; 80 to 100 percent built on. Only 20% open green (or mud coloured) space.

@jamesqf The data doesn't lie. ipsos.com/ipsos-mori/en-uk/… digimap.blogs.edina.ac.uk/2017/09/22/… I expect that when you were here, you were in a built up area? Were you in a town? That's how most people end up thinking that the UK is all built up. They spend most of their time in built up areas, and extrapolate that to the whole of the UK, without realising that 90 something percent of the UK isn't built on or even near a building.

@jamesqf About 0.1% of the UK is densely built on. That's not 1%, it's zero point one percent. A tenth of a percent. The UK is about 1.4% not-so-densely built on. So we are a very, very, very, very long way from making the UK a suburban sprawl from sea to sea. The problem is clearly not too many people.