Accounting for Nature: Assessing habitats in the UK countryside
8.   Developed Land in Rural Areas

In Great Britain, the stock of the Built-up and Gardens Broad Habitat and transport features totalled about 2.3 million ha in 1998, about 10% of the land surface. Between 1990 and 1998 the cover of developed land in rural areas increased by about 4%, but more Broadleaved Woodland was created on previously developed land than was lost to development.

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