Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Survey 2004

Table 18 identifies vacant and derelict sites in urban areas separately, for land that has been unused since before 1986. In urban areas, 47 per cent of derelict land has been unused since before 1986 compared with 34 per cent of vacant land.

Table 18: Urban sites that have lain vacant or derelict since before 1986 ^1,2, by local authority area, 2004

Local Authority	Derelict Land					Vacant Land					Total Vacant and Derelict Land
	Pre-1986			Unknown ³	Total	Pre-1986			Unknown ³	Total	Pre-1986			Unknown ³	Total
	Area (ha)	% of urban derelict land ⁴	No. of Sites	Area (ha)	Area (ha)	Area (ha)	% of urban vacant land ⁴	No. of Sites	Area (ha)	Area (ha)	Area (ha)	% of total urban land ⁴	No. of Sites	Area (ha)	Area (ha)
Aberdeen City	4	30	1	52	66	1	1	1	15	73	5	7	2	67	139
Aberdeenshire	1	17	2	2	5	2	12	2	24	41	3	13	4	26	46
Angus	18	59	7	1	31	4	13	3	2	34	22	35	10	3	65
Argyll & Bute	-	-	-	-	8	19	61	31	-	32	19	48	31	-	40
Clackmannanshire	10	33	6	-	29	2	10	2	-	25	12	22	8	-	54
Dumfries & Galloway	15	88	3	10	26	38	90	6	8	50	52	89	9	18	76
Dundee City	31	73	6	1	44	76	40	50	2	193	108	46	56	3	237
East Ayrshire	1	3	2	-	39	14	32	15	-	44	15	18	17	*	83
East Dunbartonshire	21	44	5	-	48	7	10	3	-	67	27	24	8	-	115
East Lothian	11	46	4	7	31	1	25	1	2	7	12	42	5	9	38
East Renfrewshire	4	9	5	-	43	7	51	5	-	13	11	19	10	-	56
Edinburgh, City of	13	62	6	20	41	5	35	5	23	38	18	51	11	44	79
Eilean Siar	1	72	1	-	1	1	13	1	6	10	2	27	2	6	12
Falkirk	44	42	12	3	108	59	46	38	4	131	103	44	50	7	240
Fife	29	26	11	146	259	4	4	4	18	117	33	16	15	164	375
Glasgow City	463	63	142	-	733	171	29	186	-	582	634	48	328	-	1,315
Highland	66	49	32	5	141	146	69	101	3	213	212	61	133	8	354
Inverclyde	8	13	7	*	64	14	18	12	1	79	22	16	19	2	142
Midlothian	112	60	34	5	191	12	70	8	16	34	124	61	42	21	225
Moray	2	24	3	-	7	18	73	23	4	30	20	63	26	4	36
North Ayrshire	61	23	24	-	268	57	30	32	4	195	119	26	56	4	463
North Lanarkshire	353	42	62	7	842	95	25	48	*	376	448	37	110	7	1,218
Orkney Islands	4	100	3	-	4	9	100	11	-	9	13	100	14	-	13
Perth & Kinross	4	32	4	-	13	26	53	2	2	52	30	48	6	2	65
Renfrewshire	25	30	7	-	82	43	21	17	-	205	68	24	24	-	287
Scottish Borders	10	72	7	7	21	7	39	13	7	25	17	54	20	14	47
Shetland Islands	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	2
South Ayrshire	31	27	5	10	123	12	82	6	6	21	43	34	11	16	144
South Lanarkshire	143	79	45	41	222	42	37	44	40	153	185	63	89	81	375
Stirling	76	81	2	29	123	-	-	-	11	38	76	63	2	40	161
West Dunbartonshire	38	21	18	1	182	20	55	16	1	38	58	27	34	2	220
West Lothian	77	78	8	53	151	39	43	15	8	98	116	61	23	61	250
Scotland	1,676	47	474	399	3,947	951	34	701	209	3,023	2,628	41	1,175	608	6,970

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.
3. The date when the site first became vacant or derelict is unknown. Unknown values are excluded from the calculations of percentage values.
4. The percentage of urban vacant/derelict land that has been unused since before 1986 New derelict or urban vacant sites

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