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A National Statistics Publication for Scotland
Contents
1 Background to the Survey
Chart 1: Local Authorities with the highest amount of Derelict and Urban Vacant land, 2011
2 Summary
Table 1: Derelict and Urban Vacant land by local authority area, 2011
Table 2: Derelict and Urban Vacant land by Enterprise Region, 2011 Derelict and Urban Vacant land located within Scotland's National Parks, 2011
Table 3: Total Derelict and Urban Vacant land by local authority area, 2005-2011
3 Derelict land: Levels and Location
Table 4 : Total Derelict land by local authority area, 2005-2011
Table 5: Location of Derelict sites by local authority and average site size, 2011
Chart 2: Local Authorities with the highest amount of Derelict land as a percentage of local authority administrative area, 2011
Table 6: Derelict Land Characteristics, 2011
4 Derelict Land: People's proximity to Derelict land
Table 7: Percentage of local authority population living within various distances of Derelict land, 2011
Table 8: Percentage of local authority population living within 500m of Derelict land, 2005-2011
5 Derelict and Urban Vacant Land: The Location of such land relative to Deprivation
Table 9: Derelict and Urban Vacant land located within the 15% most deprived datazones, 2007-2011
Chart 3: Percentage of Derelict and Urban Vacant land located within the 15% most deprived datazones, 2011
Chart 4: Percentage of Scotland's population living within 500m of Derelict land by deprivation decile, 2006 & 2011
6 Urban Vacant Land: Levels of Urban Vacant Land
Chart 5: Local Authorities with the highest amount of Urban Vacant land, 2011
Table 10: Total Urban Vacant land by local authority area, 2005-2011
Chart 6: Total level of Urban Vacant Land in top 6 (as at 2005) local authorities, 2005-2011
7 Derelict and Urban Vacant Land: Previous Uses, Preferred Uses and Other Characteristics
Table 11: Previous uses of derelict and urban vacant land, 2011
Table 12: Primary preferred or intended uses for Derelict or Urban Vacant sites, 2011
Table 13: Sites in Settlements: Date when Vacant or Derelict land was first identified, by local authority area, 2011
Table 14: Sites in the Countryside: Date when Derelict land was first identified, by local authority area, 2011
Table 15: Development Potential of Derelict and Urban Vacant land, 2011
8 Derelict and Urban Vacant Land: The Reuse and Fall Out of Derelict and Urban Vacant Land
Table 16: New Sites identified since the previous survey by local authority area, 2011
Table 17: Derelict land reclaimed and Urban Vacant land brought back into use since the previous survey, by local authority area, 2011
Table 18: Reclaimed Derelict land and Urban Vacant land brought back into use since the previous survey, by new use, 2011
Table 19: Sources of funding used for Derelict land reclaimed and Urban Vacant land brought back into use since the previous survey, by local authority area, 2011
Table 20: Total Derelict and Urban Vacant Land reclaimed (Hectares), 2005-2011
Chart 7: Total Derelict and Urban Vacant Land Reclaimed, 2005-2011
Table 21: Sites where the Vacant and Derelict Land Fund (VDLF) was a funding source used to reclaim Derelict land and bring Urban Vacant land back into use, 2005-2011
Table 23: Estimate of the number of properties within 500m of at least 1 site reclaimed using the Vacant and Derelict Land Fund (VDLF), split by deprivation, 2005-2011
9 Other relevant sources
10 Annex: Considerations when interpreting the data
Annex Table A: Total Derelict and Urban Vacant land by local authority area, 1996-2004
Annex Table B: Vacant Land within Settlements of under 2,000 in population, 2011
Annex Table C: Derelict Land as a percentage of total area by local authority area, 2011
Annex Table D: Sites removed for definitional reasons, by local authority area, 2011
Annex Table E: Local Authorities NOT participating in the survey, 1996-2011
A National Statistics Publication for Scotland
Presentation of figures in the bulletin
Throughout the bulletin:
a dash '-' is used to represent zero, and
an asterisk '*' is used to represent numbers between 0 and 0.5.
Availability of the bulletin
A copy of this bulletin and a set of tables in Excel format can be found on the Planning Statistics page of the Scottish Government Web site at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Planning/Publications
Further information about what the Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Survey covers and how local authorities are guided to enter site information for this return can be found in the Survey Guidance Document, also available on the Scottish Government Web site at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Planning/DataSupplierArea