Keith. As you trawl statistics here's a challenge.
Only one number, the annual pop. increase.
One number is not a trawl!
You may find your blood pressure could lower a little.
You are thinking of apoplectic Jim.
I am not emotionally involved.
Just chatting.

Prices of houses and building land are the main causes of any housing problems, not shortage of space
The price of land and homes is the inevitable result of a shortage.
If they were plentiful they would be cheap.
England is the most overcrowded place in Europe and among the most overcrowded in the world.
And, the South East is by far the most overcrowded part of England.
It is indeed, a long, long wat from Clare to here.