d wrote:
On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 10:25:40 +0100
"News" wrote:
Optimist wrote:

"The green belt is a Labour achievement, and we mean to build on
it."

Emotive terms have been formed and liberally used such as concreting
over the countryside and urban sprawl. With only about 7.5% of the
land settled,

7.5%? Where did you get that figure from? Do farms not count as
settled?

Urban, villages, towns, cities. Kate Barker report. This may help you:
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/watercity/LandArticle.html
The Supporting Links are excellent.

Cities have a natural footprint limit. The generally accepted limit
is that if it takes over an hour to travel from one side to the
other its expansion

Are you trolling? You can't get across london in an hour never mind
Toyko or mexico city.

Central Line will take you acroos London and also the new Crossrail even
quicker. Now you know.

I'm guessing you work for a developer and/or estate agency or have
some other vested interest in building sprawl.

We can't sprawl anywhere as there is just too much land in the UK. The
place is empty.

In Medieval times 100% of all taxes came from taxes on land. Up
until the late 1600s 3/4 of all taxes came from land taxes. The
aristocracy peeled back taxes on land and put it onto individual
people's efforts, income tax. By the mid 1800s, only 5% of taxes
came from land. The shift away from comprehensively taxing land
created the scourge of the modern world's economy - boom and bust.

Right, because there was never crop failure or animal disease which
meant peasents couldn't pay the tax was there, back in those bucolic
times you apparently hark back to.

The peasants never paid any taxes, only landowners. You must try to get the
points.