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

 

10. Reuse of vacant and derelict land

10.1 This part of the 1998 survey recorded sites being reclaimed or brought back into use, and also provided for the deletion of site records owing to definitional change. Two hundred and thirty seven sites (394 hectares) were removed from the survey for definitional reasons, these have been omitted from the following tables, but can be found in Annex Table B.

Table 17:

Derelict land reclaimed and vacant land brought back into use since 1997 survey by council1,2,3

Local Authority

Derelict Land

Vacant Land

Total Vacant and Derelict Land

Area (ha)

% of Area

No. of Sites

Area (ha)

% of Area

No. of Sites

Area (ha)

% of Area

No. of Sites

Aberdeenshire

35

8

37

3

1

3

38

5

40

Angus

4

1

4

3

1

4

7

1

8

Argyll & Bute

4

1

2

3

1

3

7

1

5

Clackmannanshire

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Dumfries and Galloway

*

*

1

1

*

2

2

*

3

Dundee City3

10

2

12

39

11

33

49

6

45

East Dunbartonshire

4

1

4

4

1

7

8

1

11

East Lothian

13

3

9

3

1

4

15

2

13

East Renfrewshire

3

1

1

6

2

5

9

1

6

Edinburgh, City of

*

*

1

6

2

4

6

1

5

Eilean Siar

-

-

-

2

*

1

2

*

1

Falkirk

85

18

19

72

21

30

157

19

49

Fife

24

5

12

12

3

6

36

4

18

Glasgow City

40

9

27

77

22

85

117

14

112

Inverclyde

7

1

7

9

3

14

16

2

21

Midlothian

29

6

11

2

1

1

31

4

12

North Ayrshire

16

3

3

10

3

8

26

3

11

North Lanarkshire

114

24

44

51

15

39

165

20

83

Orkney Islands

-

-

-

1

*

3

1

*

3

Perthshire & Kinross

4

1

3

2

1

3

6

1

6

Renfrewshire

6

1

4

18

5

16

23

3

20

Scottish Borders

4

1

7

1

*

4

5

1

11

Shetland Islands

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

South Ayrshire

2

*

2

7

2

7

10

1

9

South Lanarkshire

51

11

16

12

3

21

63

8

37

Stirling

4

1

3

9

2

4

12

1

7

West Dunbartonshire

9

3

3

5

1

6

14

2

9

Scotland

468

100

232

355

100

313

823

100

545

1 Figures may not sum due to rounding.

2 The figures for Aberdeen City, East Ayrshire, Highland, Moray and West Lothian are not included as they were unable to participate in the 1998 survey.

3 The figures for Dundee are since the 1996 survey, as they did not participate in the 1997 survey.

 

10.2 Between 1997 and 1998, the total area of land reclaimed or brought back into use, excluding sites removed for definitional reasons, was 823 hectares comprising 545 sites. Fifty seven per cent of this area was derelict land that was reclaimed, of which 24 percent was in North Lanarkshire, and 18 per cent was in Falkirk. Of the vacant land that was brought back into use (355 hectares), 22 per cent was in Glasgow and 21 per cent in Falkirk.

10.3 The new use of sites, or parts of sites, being reclaimed or brought back into use was also recorded in the 1998 survey and can be seen, in Table 18 (excluding sites removed for definitional reasons).

 

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