The land under your feet
“We live on a small, overcrowded island”, is a common enough refrain whether the subject under discussion is housing, road building, airport expansion or the arrival of refugees. As this book reveals this is a myth, partly perpetuated by those with a vested interest in maintaining their privileges and elite position with regard to the land. The UK is not, as “emotionally claimed” by some, being “concreted over”, in fact only 6% of the UK is urbanised. What agitates the author and I hope his readers, is not so much the question of urban spread but who owns the land underneath the buildings, the...