On Friday, 10 April 2015 09:46:03 UTC+1, The Other Mike wrote:
On Wed, 08 Apr 2015 10:10:34 +0100, Bod wrote:


Dartmoor/Exmoor/Yorkshire moors. These are all vast areas, largely
unpopulated yet, but perfectly habitable.


I wonder why no one wants to live there.

Fence London in, build a few hundred megascrapers and leave the rest of the
country untouched.

That's what they are doing the fence is called the M25
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/p...-the-rise.html

Planning permission has either been approved, or is pending approval, for no fewer than 236 new high-rise buildings in the middle of London.

Most of these buildings - 189 at the last count - are going to be apartment blocks. They range from a minimum of 20 storeys high, right up to the current permitted maximum of 75 storeys.