In the Workplace, (Health Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, the UK Government set out exactly how many cubic metres are required per employee for an office space to be sufficient.
What is the requirement?
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The Pentagon is the world's largest office building, with over 300,000 m2 of office space - that’s enough to fill over 64 football fields! Imagine trying to find the printer…
3 m
2
A.
8 m
2
B.
11 m
2
C.
Commercial
Of the total industrial space sold in the UK in 2020, what % did Amazon buy?
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Amazon’s purchases represented a whopping 23% of the 13.5 million sq. ft total take-up in 2020. Each second Amazon records $4,722 worth of sales – that’s more than $17 million an hour!
11%
A.
23%
B.
65%
C.
Commercial
Construction began on Antoni Gaudi's extravagant and unfinished Barcelona church Sagrada Familia in 1882, but when was the required building permit finally granted by Barcelona city authorities?
1912
A.
1998
B.
2016
C.
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The spectacular building is visited by more than four million a year, and is due to be completed in 2026, which happens to be the centenary of Gaudi's death.
In 2016, how many homes did the House of Lords Select Committee on Economic Affairs state the UK needed to build per year to solve the housing crisis?
100,000
A.
300,000
B.
500,000
C.
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There are many barriers to development, including the need to relocate wildlife before development starts. One inventive way planners got around this in the case of the great crested newt was to make a slide to move newts from one pond to another – a bit like a newt water park!
Planning and Development
How much extra stamp duty would you have to pay if buying a second home or additional property?
1.5%
A.
3%
B.
5%
C.
FUN FACT
Stamp duty was introduced in England on 28 June 1694. It was first introduced to raise money for the war against France and wasn’t restricted to houses – the tax was also raised on goods including newspapers, hats, and playing cards!
Residential
What proportion of UK households do not have a garden?
13%
A.
22%
B.
34%
C.
FUN FACT
The average age of the first-time buyer in the UK is 34. Many factors impact why more people choose to rent these days, including a highly competitive sales market, the greater flexibility that renting offers, and improved tenant rights.
Residential
What is the highest annual income per acre a landowner can expect when leasing
100 acres of land to a solar developer?
£1,200
A.
£4,800
B.
£7,200
C.
FUN FACT
The first solar cell was created in 1883, however it only had an energy conversion rate of 1-2% (compared to today’s efficiency of around 15-20%).
RURAL
How is payment calculated when a telecoms operator puts a mast on a landowner’s property?
It’s based on the value to the operator
A.
It’s up to the landowner and the operator to negotiate
B.
It’s based on the value to the landowner as agricultural land
C.
FUN FACT
The longest phone cable in the world runs from Western Europe to Japan (via Australia), and is 24,000 miles long!
It’s called the South East Asia–Middle East–Western Europe 4 (with the catchier abbreviation of the SEA-ME-WE-4), and was finished in 2005.
A developer required to achieve a net biodiversity gain of 10% can, in some circumstances, pay a landowner to achieve this gain on their behalf. Would a wetland qualify for this scheme?
No
A.
Yes, but it would have to be newly created
B.
Yes, an existing wetland can qualify
C.
FUN FACT
Wetlands are some of the world’s most biodiverse habitats, and can help us slow climate change by naturally absorbing / storing huge amounts of carbon - peatlands alone store twice as much carbon as all the world’s forests combined!
Infrastructure
Farmland used for growing cereal crops in East Anglia is some of the most profitable farmland in England. Around how much is this type of farmland worth per acre?
£5,400
A.
£9,500
B.
£12,380
C.
FUN FACT
East Anglia farms produce enough barley to make 2.5 million pints of beer each year! There are also 5.5 million tonnes of potatoes produced in the UK each year – that’s enough to make over 27 billion packets of crisps.
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