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Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Survey 2004

8 Size of derelict and urban vacant sites

8.1 Table 14 shows the relationship between the date when a site was first identified and the size of the site. The average size of sites identified before 1981 is 3.5 hectares compared to an average of 1.3 hectares for sites identified between 2001 and 2004.

Table 14: Date when derelict and urban vacant site was first identified by size of site, 2004 1,2

Date when site first identified

Size of Derelict/Urban Vacant Site

Average Size of Site (ha)

No. of Sites <= 0.5 ha

No. of Sites >0.5 <= 1.0ha

No. of Sites >1.0 <= 5.0ha

No. of Sites >5.0 <= 10.0ha

No. of Sites >10.0 ha

No. of Sites

% of Sites

No. of Sites

% of Sites

No. of Sites

% of Sites

No. of Sites

% of Sites

No. of Sites

% of Sites

Pre 1981

295

37

144

18

260

32

60

7

45

6

3.5

1981 to 1985

243

40

109

18

188

31

39

6

30

5

2.3

1986 to 1990

198

41

71

15

160

33

33

7

20

4

3.2

1991 to 1995

234

42

116

21

162

29

27

5

16

3

2.5

1996 to 2000

294

43

157

23

206

30

16

2

17

2

2.7

2001 to 2004

336

51

131

20

157

24

25

4

10

2

1.3

Unknown

175

47

68

18

92

25

23

6

17

5

2.2

Total

1,775

43

796

19

1,225

29

223

5

155

4

2.6

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.

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