Housing
Some facts:
There are 991 people per square mile in England
64% of households are one or two people 80% of dwellings are individual houses. A standard 2 bedroom house consumes 50% more energy than a standard 2 bedroom flat (source: Energy Saving Trust).
New build adds no more than 1% to the total housing stock each year
Before the twentieth century, cities, towns, even villages were all built at high densities – they had to house people in walking distance of their daily needs.
The dispersal of towns and cities began with suburban tram and rail lines and accelerated with mass car ownership. Our wasteful patterns of land use – not only in housing, but in retail and employment – depend on near-universal use of the car.
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