EU 'urban sprawl' harms environment, report warns

By 2020, some member states' population will be up to 90 percent urbanised with EU funding contributing to uncontrolled sprawl in some cities, a new environment study has said

Europeans' increasing demand for land - partly because they live longer and more live alone – is a danger to the EU's environment as well as its social and economic balance, says a report published Friday by the European Environment Agency (EEA).

Urban sprawl – which is "when the rate of land-use conversion ...