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6 Preferred or intended uses
6.1 Planning authorities were asked to indicate up to three preferred or intended uses for the sites as defined in the most recent local plan or other approved local authority planning policy documents. The distribution of the primary preference is shown in Table 12.
Table 12: Primary preferred or intended uses for derelict or urban vacant sites, 2005 1, 2
Preferred or Intended Use | Derelict Land | Urban Vacant Land | Total Derelict and Urban Vacant Land |
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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 Land (by Area) | No. of Sites |
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Agriculture | 603 | 9 | 206 | 7 | * | 6 | 610 | 6 | 212 |
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Business Class | 303 | 4 | 67 | 259 | 9 | 136 | 563 | 6 | 203 |
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Community & Health | 32 | * | 9 | 26 | 1 | 21 | 58 | 1 | 30 |
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Defence | 732 | 10 | 1 | 1 | * | 1 | 733 | 7 | 2 |
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Education | 3 | * | 2 | 27 | 1 | 15 | 31 | * | 17 |
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Forestry/Woodland | 259 | 4 | 55 | 24 | 1 | 15 | 283 | 3 | 70 |
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Manufacturing | 523 | 7 | 159 | 490 | 17 | 278 | 1,013 | 10 | 437 |
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Mineral Activity | 123 | 2 | 9 | - | - | - | 123 | 1 | 9 |
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Nature Conservation | 92 | 1 | 18 | 1 | * | 2 | 93 | 1 | 20 |
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Offices | 79 | 1 | 18 | 52 | 2 | 34 | 131 | 1 | 52 |
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Other General Industry 3 | 1,378 | 20 | 214 | 493 | 17 | 298 | 1,871 | 19 | 512 |
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Passive Open Space | 329 | 5 | 116 | 159 | 6 | 158 | 488 | 5 | 274 |
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Recreation & Leisure 4 | 688 | 10 | 71 | 128 | 4 | 60 | 816 | 8 | 131 |
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Residential | 1,208 | 17 | 633 | 1,044 | 36 | 935 | 2,252 | 23 | 1,568 |
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Retailing | 281 | 4 | 42 | 62 | 2 | 63 | 343 | 3 | 105 |
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Storage | 38 | 1 | 10 | 5 | * | 7 | 43 | * | 17 |
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Transport | 98 | 1 | 39 | 30 | 1 | 31 | 128 | 1 | 70 |
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Utility Services | 8 | * | 4 | 2 | * | 3 | 10 | * | 7 |
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Wholesale Distribution | - | - | - | 9 | * | 4 | 9 | * | 4 |
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Other | 166 | 2 | 45 | 45 | 2 | 41 | 212 | 2 | 86 |
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Not Applicable | 31 | * | 26 | 12 | * | 10 | 43 | * | 36 |
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Unknown 5 | 622 | - | 120 | 96 | - | 111 | 718 | - | 231 |
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Total | 7,597 | 100 | 1,864 | 2,973 | 100 | 2,229 | 10,570 | 100 | 4,093 |
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1. Figures may not sum due to rounding
2. 2002 data have been used for the Scottish Borders council area.
3. Excluding manufacturing
4. Excluding passive open space
5. Unknown values are excluded from the calculation of percentages
6.2 The most popular preferred or intended future uses for derelict land, where known, were other general industry (20 per cent), residential (17 per cent) and recreation and defence (each with 10 per cent). For urban vacant land, these were residential (36 per cent), other general industry (17 per cent) and manufacturing (17 per cent). Primary preferred or intended future uses are also shown in Chart 6.
Chart 6: Primary preferred or intended use of derelict and urban vacant land, 2005
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