Statistical Bulletin ENV/2000/1 Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land survey 1999: page 11


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Statistical Bulletin ENV/2000/1 Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Survey 1999

10. Reuse of vacant and derelict land

10.1 The tables and charts in this section relate only to sites (or parts thereof) which were brought back into actual use. Sites removed from the survey for definitional reasons are not included here: details of these sites are given in Annex Table B.

Table 16: Derelict land reclaimed and vacant land brought back into use since the 1998 survey, by local authority area, 1999^1,2

Local Authority	Derelict Land			Vacant Land			Total Vacant and Derelict Land
Local Authority	Area (ha)	% of Area	No. of Sites	Area (ha)	% of Area	No. of Sites	Area (ha)	% of Area	No. of Sites
Aberdeen City³	10	1	11	41	6	36	51	4	47
Aberdeenshire	*	*	1	-	-	-	*	-	1
Angus	24	3	7	20	3	6	43	3	13
Clackmannanshire	-	-	-	*	*	1	*	*	1
Dumfries & Galloway	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Dundee City	2	*	4	23	3	31	25	2	35
East Ayrshire⁴	54	7	18	39	6	44	93	7	62
East Dunbartonshire	8	1	3	8	1	2	16	1	5
East Lothian	139	18	16	15	2	11	155	11	27
East Renfrewshire	4	*	1	6	1	10	10	1	11
Edinburgh, City of	12	2	5	11	2	9	24	2	14
Eilean Siar	-	-	-	2	*	1	2	*	1
Falkirk	16	2	6	31	5	12	47	3	18
Fife	39	5	20	8	1	5	47	3	25
Glasgow City	57	8	31	71	11	80	129	9	111
Inverclyde	7	1	5	2	*	8	10	1	13
Midlothian	6	1	1	9	1	3	15	1	4
North Ayrshire	*	*	1	12	2	15	12	1	16
North Lanarkshire	108	14	65	68	10	55	176	12	120
Orkney Islands	*	*	1	1	*	2	1	*	3
Perth & Kinross	6	1	5	7	1	3	12	1	8
Renfrewshire	7	1	5	13	2	13	19	1	18
Scottish Borders	7	1	9	3	*	7	9	1	16
Shetland Islands	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
South Lanarkshire	20	3	6	19	3	19	39	3	25
Stirling	44	6	3	3	*	1	47	3	4
West Dunbartonshire	12	2	5	11	2	11	22	2	16
West Lothian⁴	183	24	25	242	36	42	424	30	67
Scotland	764	100	254	665	100	427	1,429	100	681

1 Figures may not sum due to rounding
2 The figures for Argyll & Bute, Highland, Moray and South Ayrshire are not included as they did not participate in the 1999 survey
3 The figures for Aberdeen City are from 1997 as they did not participate in the 1998 survey
4 The figures for East Ayrshire and West Lothian are from 1995 as they did not participate in the 1996, 1997 or 1998 surveys

10.2 Table 16 shows that a total of 1,429 hectares (681 sites) were reclaimed or brought back into use since the 1998 survey, excluding those sites removed for definitional reasons. Fifty three per cent (764 hectares) of this area was derelict land that was reclaimed, of which 24 per cent was in West Lothian, 18 per cent in East Lothian and 14 per cent in North Lanarkshire. Of the 665 hectares of vacant land which was brought back into use, 36 per cent (242 hectares) was in West Lothian, 11 per cent (71 hectares) was in Glasgow City and 10 per cent (68 hectares) was in North Lanarkshire.

10.3 The contribution made by West Lothian to these figures will be exaggerated by the fact that their data relates to land reclaimed or brought back into use since the 1995 survey.

10.4 The new use of sites, or parts of sites, that were reclaimed or brought back into use (excluding sites removed for definitional reasons) is shown in Table 17.

Table 17: Reclaimed derelict land and vacant land brought back into use since the 1998 survey, by new use, 1999^1—4

New Use	Derelict Land			Vacant Land			Total Vacant and Derelict Land
New Use	Area (ha)	% of Area	No. of Sites	Area (ha)	% of Area	No. of Sites	Area (ha)	% of Area	No. of Sites
Agriculture	39	7	7	4	1	5	43	4	12
Business Class	*	*	1	10	2	8	10	1	9
Community & Health	*	*	1	22	5	12	22	2	13
Education	4	1	3	2	*	3	6	1	6
Forestry/Woodland	37	6	8	10	2	6	48	5	14
Manufacturing	13	2	8	12	3	13	25	2	21
Mineral Activity	152	26	48	-	-	-	152	15	48
Nature Conservation	52	9	4	8	2	2	60	6	6
Offices	3	1	5	6	1	12	9	1	17
Other General Industry	24	4	12	42	10	49	66	7	61
Passive Open Space	21	4	15	50	12	30	71	7	45
Recreation & Leisure	63	11	10	19	4	12	82	8	22
Residential	106	18	64	153	36	153	258	26	217
Retailing	23	4	14	26	6	22	49	5	36
Storage	10	2	9	31	7	14	41	4	23
Transport	3	*	7	14	3	20	16	2	27
Utility Services	*	*	1	-	-	-	*	*	1
Wholesale Distribution	*	*	1	2	*	4	2	*	5
Vacant Pending New Use	6	1	3	-	-	-	6	1	3
Other	23	4	7	17	4	19	40	4	26
Unknown^5,6	183	-	26	240	-	43	422	-	69
Total	764	100	254	665	100	427	1,429	100	681

1 Figures may not sum due to rounding
2 The figures for Argyll & Bute, Highland, Moray and South Ayrshire are not included as they did not participate in the 1999 survey
3 The figures for Aberdeen City are from 1997 as they did not participate in the 1998 survey
4 The figures for West Lothian refer to the period since the 1995 survey
5 All data from West Lothian is included in the Unknown category, as details of new use were not provided
6 Unknown values are excluded from the calculation of percentages

10.5 Chart 7 shows the distribution of new uses for vacant and derelict land brought back into use since the 1998 survey. The most common new use for derelict land was for mineral activities, with 26 per cent (152 hectares) of the land area being reclaimed for this purpose. The second most common use for derelict land was for residential development, for which 18 per cent (106 hectares) was used, followed by recreation and leisure, for which 11 per cent (63 hectares) was used. The most common use for vacant land was for residential development, with 36 per cent (153 hectares) being used. The second most common use was for passive open space, for which 12 per cent (50 hectares) was used, closely followed by other general industry, for which 10 per cent (42 hectares) was used.

Chart 7: New uses for vacant and derelict land, 1999

Chart 7

10.6 The average size of reclaimed derelict sites was 3.1 hectares. Sites reclaimed for mineral activities were also an average of 3.1 hectares in size, compared with 1.7 hectares for residential development and 6.4 hectares for recreation and leisure use.

10.7 The average size of vacant sites brought back into use was 1.6 hectares. Sites used for residential purposes were an average of 1.1 hectares in size, those used for passive open space were 1.7 hectares, whereas those for other general industry were just 0.9 hectares in size.

10.8 Table 18 shows the distribution of site size classes for those sites brought back into use. The distribution is similar to that for extant sites (i.e. those which remain vacant or derelict). This implies that the ‘demand’ for vacant or derelict sites closely matches the ‘supply’, in terms of the size of available sites.

Table 18: Distribution of size of sites brought back into use and extant sites, 1999^1—4

Type	Size of Site
Type	No. of Sites <= 1 ha	% of Sites	No. of Sites 1—5 ha	% of Sites	No. of Sites 5—10 ha	% of Sites	No. of Sites 10—20 ha	% of Sites	No. of Sites >= 20 ha	% of Sites	Total No.of Sites	% of Sites
Derelict
Extant	1,137	55	639	31	158	8	96	5	56	3	2,086	100
New Use	140	55	82	32	17	7	10	4	5	2	254	100
Vacant
Extant	1,815	66	781	28	106	4	37	1	17	1	2,756	100
New Use	285	67	125	29	10	2	5	1	2	*	427	100
Total
Extant	2,951	61	1,420	29	264	5	133	3	73	2	4,841	100
New Use	430	62	204	30	26	4	14	2	7	1	681	100

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