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Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Survey 2004
2.14 The distribution of derelict and urban vacant land by Local Enterprise Company (LEC) area is shown in Table 3. The four Local Enterprise Company areas with the highest levels of derelict and urban vacant land are Scottish Enterprise Lanarkshire (1,925 hectares), Scottish Enterprise Glasgow (1,315 hectares), Scottish Enterprise Renfrewshire (1,223 hectares) and Scottish Enterprise Edinburgh and Lothian (1,082 hectares). Together, they contain 52 per cent of the recorded derelict and urban vacant land in Scotland.
Table 3: Derelict and urban vacant land 1 by Local Enterprise Company area, 2004 2
Local Enterprise Company | Derelict Land | Urban Vacant Land | Total Derelict and Urban Vacant Land |
Area (ha) | % of Derelict Land (by Area) | No. of Sites | Area (ha) | % of Urban Vacant Land (by Area) | No. of Sites | Area (ha) | % of Total V&D Land (by Area) | No. of Sites |
Scottish Enterprise | 6,669 | 87 | 1,622 | 2,737 | 91 | 2,028 | 9,406 | 88 | 3,650 |
SE Ayrshire | 736 | 10 | 207 | 260 | 9 | 185 | 996 | 9 | 392 |
SE Borders | 40 | 1 | 38 | 25 | 1 | 41 | 65 | 1 | 79 |
SE Dumfries & Galloway | 307 | 4 | 37 | 50 | 2 | 17 | 358 | 3 | 54 |
SE Dunbartonshire | 242 | 3 | 109 | 114 | 4 | 65 | 355 | 3 | 174 |
SE Edinburgh & Lothian | 905 | 12 | 198 | 177 | 6 | 76 | 1,082 | 10 | 274 |
SE Fife | 687 | 9 | 102 | 117 | 4 | 80 | 804 | 8 | 182 |
SE Forth Valley | 326 | 4 | 81 | 195 | 6 | 126 | 521 | 5 | 207 |
SE Glasgow | 733 | 10 | 283 | 582 | 19 | 578 | 1,315 | 12 | 861 |
SE Grampian | 143 | 2 | 40 | 114 | 4 | 65 | 257 | 2 | 105 |
SE Lanarkshire | 1,396 | 18 | 336 | 529 | 17 | 307 | 1,925 | 18 | 643 |
SE Renfrewshire | 927 | 12 | 117 | 297 | 10 | 246 | 1,223 | 11 | 363 |
SE Tayside | 227 | 3 | 74 | 279 | 9 | 242 | 506 | 5 | 316 |
Highlands & Islands Enterprise | 969 | 13 | 246 | 287 | 9 | 278 | 1,255 | 12 | 524 |
Argyll & The Islands Enterprise | 17 | * | 18 | 23 | 1 | 42 | 40 | * | 60 |
Caithness & Sutherland Enterprise | 81 | 1 | 78 | 39 | 1 | 50 | 121 | 1 | 128 |
Inverness & Nairn Enterprise | 87 | 1 | 16 | 40 | 1 | 34 | 127 | 1 | 50 |
Lochaber Limited | 29 | * | 32 | 20 | 1 | 15 | 49 | * | 47 |
Moray, Badenoch & Strathspey Enterprise | 19 | * | 28 | 41 | 1 | 53 | 59 | 1 | 81 |
Orkney Enterprise | 9 | * | 10 | 9 | * | 11 | 18 | * | 21 |
Ross & Cromarty Enterprise | 716 | 9 | 29 | 100 | 3 | 55 | 816 | 8 | 84 |
Shetland Enterprise | - | - | - | 2 | * | 5 | 2 | * | 5 |
Skye & Lochalsh Enterprise | 9 | * | 31 | 2 | * | 5 | 11 | * | 36 |
Western Isles Enterprise | 1 | * | 4 | 10 | * | 8 | 12 | * | 12 |
Scotland | 7,638 | 100 | 1,868 | 3,023 | 100 | 2,306 | 10,661 | 100 | 4,174 |
1. Figures may not sum due to rounding
2. 2003 data have been used for the following council areas: Aberdeenshire, Argyll and Bute, Scottish Borders and South Ayrshire.
2.15 LEC areas provide the most closely consistent geographical boundaries upon which a time series can be constructed prior to 1996. The only major change following local government reorganisation in 1996 was the expansion of the Scottish Enterprise Lanarkshire boundary (See Annex A.11 for details). Tables 4a, 4b, 4c show respectively the distribution of derelict, urban vacant and total derelict and urban vacant land since 1993. The entire series has been adjusted so that Cumbernauld and Kilsyth are included in the figures for Scottish Enterprise Lanarkshire and not Scottish Enterprise Dunbartonshire. The footnotes to the table describe the treatment of other boundary changes. Where a local authority did not participate in the survey in any given year, the most recently collected data have been used to provide estimates for the relevant LEC area. Annex table C shows participation rates by local authorities.
2.16 Since 1993, there has been a decrease in the amount of derelict and urban vacant land recorded from 15,400 hectares in 1993 to 10,661 in 2004 (Table 4c). This is partly attributable to land being brought back into productive use, and partly due to land being removed for definitional reasons or due to naturalisation. The biggest decreases have been in Scottish Enterprise Lanarkshire (1,860 hectares), Scottish Enterprise Edinburgh and Lothian (1,092 hectares) and Scottish Enterprise Glasgow (822 hectares).
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