Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Survey 1998: ENV/1999/1: Page 11

Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Survey 1998: ENV/1999/1

7. Preferred or intended uses

7.1 Planning authorities were asked to show up to three preferred or intended uses for sites as defined in the most recent local plan or other local authority documents. The distribution of first preferences appears in Table 13.

Table 13:

Preferred or intended uses for vacant and derelict land, 1998¹

	Derelict Land			Vacant Land			Total Vacant and Derelict Land
Preferred or intended use	Area (ha)	% of Area	No. of Sites	Area (ha)	% of Area	No. of Sites	Area (ha)	% of Area	No. of Sites
Agriculture	1,509	22	466	275	6	52	1,784	16	518
Business Class	148	2	29	279	6	60	427	4	89
Community & Health	26	*	13	66	2	34	92	1	47
Defence	166	2	1	1	*	1	167	1	2
Education	12	*	6	31	1	26	43	*	32
Forestry/Woodland	226	3	61	37	1	19	263	2	80
Manufacturing	656	10	218	746	17	414	1,402	12	632
Mineral Activity	326	5	30	6	*	1	332	3	31
Nature Conservation	12	*	2	*	*	1	12	*	3
Offices	13	*	16	47	1	36	60	1	52
Other General Industry³	1,195	17	195	569	13	358	1,764	16	553
Passive Open Space	615	9	154	382	9	269	998	9	423
Recreation & Leisure²	608	9	117	200	5	77	809	7	194
Residential	863	13	572	1,323	30	1,143	2,186	19	1,715
Retailing	17	*	35	73	2	78	89	1	113
Storage	70	1	27	40	1	16	111	1	43
Transport	70	1	39	71	2	52	141	1	91
Utility Services	17	*	9	3	*	4	20	*	13
Wholesale Distribution	22	*	3	29	1	9	50	*	12
Other	237	3	65	105	2	64	342	3	129
Not Applicable	80	1	47	56	1	42	137	1	89
Unknown⁴	898	-	117	86	-	91	984	-	208
Total	7,787	100	2,222	4,425	100	2,847	12,212	100	5,069

1 Figures may not sum due to rounding.

2 Excluding passive open space.

3 Excluding manufacturing.

4 Unknown values are excluded from the calculation of percentages.

7.2 Thirty percent of vacant land, where known, had a preferred or intended future use for residential purposes, followed by manufacturing (17 per cent), other general industries (13 per cent) and passive open space (9 per cent). The most common preferred or intended future use, where known, for derelict land was agriculture (22 per cent) followed by other general industries (17 per cent) and residential purposes (13 per cent).

7.3 Chart 5 shows preferred or intended future use of vacant land, ranked by use.

Chart 5:

Preferred or intended uses of vacant and derelict land, 1998
(12 most preferred uses)

chart 5