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8.1 The survey covers derelict land in both urban and rural areas. Table 14 shows the urban rural split of derelict land by council.

Table 14: Location of derelict land by council and islands area¹

Authority	Urban				Rural				All Derelict Land
Authority	Area (ha)	%	No. of Sites	%	Area (ha)	%	No. of Sites	%	Area (ha)	No. of Sites
Aberdeen City	34	44	31	79	44	56	8	21	78	39
Aberdeenshire	15	11	27	40	117	89	41	60	132	68
Angus	26	8	17	34	311	92	33	66	337	50
Argyll & Bute	6	27	9	43	16	73	12	57	22	21
Clackmannanshire	30	61	17	85	19	39	3	15	49	20
Dumfries & Galloway	24	8	24	65	280	92	13	35	304	37
Dundee City	73	92	34	89	7	9	4	11	79	38
East Ayrshire	66	15	50	52	379	85	47	48	445	97
East Dunbartonshire	53	93	14	78	4	7	2	11	57	18
East Lothian	22	10	23	53	196	90	20	47	218	43
East Renfrewshire	18	100	2	100	0	0	0	0	18	2
Edinburgh, City of	74	88	27	93	9	11	2	7	84	29
Falkirk	123	67	47	71	61	33	19	29	184	66
Fife²	163	27	79	74	451	73	27	25	614	107
Glasgow City	894	100	285	100	0	0	1	0	894	286
Highland	244	77	171	73	72	23	62	27	315	233
Inverclyde	50	100	26	100	0	0	0	0	50	26
Midlothian	162	41	63	52	238	60	59	48	400	122
Moray	32	94	32	89	3	9	4	11	34	36
North Ayrshire	167	69	59	63	76	31	34	37	243	93
North Lanarkshire	948	44	204	29	1,231	56	494	71	2,179	698
Orkney Islands	1	8	3	27	11	92	8	73	12	11
Perthshire & Kinross	32	43	15	75	43	57	5	25	75	20
Renfrewshire	41	43	15	83	54	57	3	17	95	18
Scottish Borders	23	43	39	75	31	57	13	25	54	52
South Ayrshire	14	67	11	73	8	38	4	27	21	15
South Lanarkshire²	324	63	101	71	172	33	38	27	514	142
Stirling	81	65	11	55	43	34	9	45	125	20
West Dunbartonshire	81	95	38	97	4	5	1	3	85	39
West Lothian	155	20	26	27	607	80	70	73	762	96
Western Isles	2	100	3	75	0	0	1	25	2	4
Scotland	3,977	47	1,505	59	4,487	53	1,037	41	8,482	2,546
1 Figures may not sum due to rounding.
2 For four sites the distinction between urban or rural is unspecified. There are three in South Lanarkshire (12.03 ha, 5.89 ha and 0.12 ha)

8.2 The authoritites with the highest levels of urban derelict land in 1996 were North Lanarkshire (949 hectares), Glasgow (894 hectares) and South Lanarkshire (324 hectares). While the authorities with the highest levels of rural derelict land were North Lanarkshire (1,231 hectares), West Lothian (607 hectares), Fife (451 hectares) and East Ayrshire (379 hectares). The table also shows the split for total area and number of sites for each council, these imply that on average urban sites are smaller than rural sites, for example in Scotland, 47 per cent of derelict land is urban, while 59 per cent of derelict sites are urban. This is true for 20 of the 32 authorities.

Table 15: Derelict land by location and size of site^1,2

8.3 It can be seen, from table 15, which shows derelict land by location and site size, that the majority of sites under 5 hectares are in urban areas, while the majority of sites over 10 hectares are in rural areas.

8.4 Chart 5, shows the 12 councils with the highest percentage of urban derelict land in relation to their total urban area. Using the postcode directory supplied by the General Register Office (Scotland), urban areas have been defined as localities which contain 1,000 residents or more. The figures for all the councils can be found in the Annex, which also includes the percentage of rural land area which is derelict.

Chart 5 : Urban derelict land as a percentage of an authority’s total urban land area

8.5 From chart 5 it can be seen that of the urban area of North Lanarkshire and Glasgow, 8.7 per cent and 5.1 per cent, respectively, were derelict.

	Less than or equal to 1 ha	% of sites	Between 1 and 5 ha	% of sites	Between 5 and 10 ha	% of sites	Between 10 and 20 ha	% of sites	Over 20 ha	% of sites	Total	% of sites
Urban Rural	853	62	490	60	90	53	43	40	29	45	1,505	59
Urban Rural	531	38	328	40	79	46	64	59	35	55	1,037	41
Total	1,386	100	818	100	170	100	108	100	64	100	2,546	100
1 Figures may not sum due to rounding.
2 For four sites the distinction between urban or rural is unspecified. There are three in South Lanarkshire (12.03 ha, 5.89 ha and 0.12 ha)

8. Location of derelict land

Table 14: Location of derelict land by council and islands area1

Table 15: Derelict land by location and size of site 1,2

Chart 5 : Urban derelict land as a percentage of an authority’s total urban land area

Table 14: Location of derelict land by council and islands area¹

Table 15: Derelict land by location and size of site^1,2