20 houses per hectare is low density, with a decent garden and local roads. At that level you can fit 20,000 houses, or 50-70k people, within a short 2km walk o

20 houses per hectare is low density, with a decent garden and local roads. At that level you can fit 20,000 houses, or 50-70k people, within a short 2km walk of a station, and a few local shops around the place too, and on average you’re about 800m from the edge of town. Have 1 town every 10km (so 6km of country between them) and that’s a 6:1 country:town ratio and a density higher than that of even the Netherlands.