Statistical Bulletin Environment Series ENV/2001/1: Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Survey 2000: page 19


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Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Survey 2000

Land area eligible in the survey. Although all derelict land should be included in the survey, the recording of vacant land is restricted to urban areas where the resident population exceeds 2,000 people, and the 1km region which surrounds them. As a consequence, the actual land area surveyed for vacant land is often considerably smaller than the total land area of each local authority, especially in the case of the more rural areas. The figures contained in this bulletin should thus be interpreted as showing derelict land throughout Scotland, but only urban vacant land. Figures for the urban and rural land areas of each local authority are shown in Annex Table A.

Annex Table A: Derelict land as a percentage of total area by local authority area, 2000^1,2

Local Authority	Total Derelict Land (ha)	Urban Derelict Land (ha)	Rural Derelict Land (ha)	Total Area (ha)	Urban Area (ha)	Rural Area (ha)	% Total Area Derelict	% Urban Area Derelict	% Rural Area Derelict
Aberdeen City	68	25	43	18,581	7,736	10,845	0.37	0.32	0.40
Aberdeenshire	92	10	83	631,787	9,242	622,545	0.01	0.11	0.01
Angus	186	22	164	218,148	4,174	213,974	0.09	0.53	0.08
Argyll & Bute	17	11	6	692,967	8,165	684,802	0.00	0.13	0.00
Clackmannanshire	30	20	10	15,662	2,173	13,489	0.19	0.92	0.07
Dumfries & Galloway	306	24	282	643,903	6,600	637,303	0.05	0.36	0.04
Dundee City³	74	73	1	6,515	4,694	1,821	1.14	1.56	0.05
East Ayrshire	349	45	304	125,199	4,998	120,201	0.28	0.90	0.25
East Dunbartonshire	66	39	27	17,182	4,468	12,714	0.38	0.87	0.21
East Lothian	101	43	58	67,772	4,484	63,288	0.15	0.96	0.09
East Renfrewshire	13	13	-	17,269	2,801	14,468	0.08	0.46	-
Edinburgh, City of	111	75	35	26,228	13,056	13,172	0.42	0.57	0.27
Eilean Siar	1	1	-	313,353	7,969	305,384	0.00	0.01	-
Falkirk³	103	51	52	29,924	7,606	22,318	0.34	0.67	0.23
Fife	613	263	350	132,256	15,091	117,165	0.46	1.74	0.30
Glasgow City	804	804	-	17,504	17,504	-	4.59	4.59	-
Highland⁴	315	244	72	2,578,379	20,678	2,557,701	0.01	1.18	0.00
Inverclyde	67	65	1	16,179	2,926	13,253	0.41	2.22	0.01
Midlothian	333	79	253	35,587	3,457	32,130	0.94	2.29	0.79
Moray	34	32	3	223,823	7,288	216,535	0.02	0.44	0.00
North Ayrshire	237	156	81	88,387	6,429	81,958	0.27	2.43	0.10
North Lanarkshire	1,414	870	544	47,358	10,928	36,430	2.99	7.96	1.49
Orkney Islands	12	1	11	99,165	1,018	98,147	0.01	0.10	0.01
Perth & Kinross	98	40	57	531,146	7,566	523,580	0.02	0.53	0.01
Renfrewshire	243	62	180	26,139	6,155	19,984	0.93	1.01	0.90
Scottish Borders³	48	20	27	473,379	4,282	469,097	0.01	0.47	0.01
Shetland Islands	-	-	-	143,808	7,835	135,973	-	-	-
South Ayrshire	132	118	14	120,223	5,640	114,583	0.11	2.09	0.01
South Lanarkshire	497	278	219	177,116	10,788	166,328	0.28	2.58	0.13
Stirling	170	82	88	219,588	3,707	215,881	0.08	2.21	0.04
West Dunbartonshire	123	123	-	16,223	3,165	13,058	0.76	3.89	-
West Lothian³	766	169	598	42,504	6,489	36,015	1.80	2.60	1.66
Scotland	7,423	3,858	3,563	7,813,254	229,112	7,584,142	0.10	1.68	0.05

1 Figures may not sum due to rounding
2 Total urban and rural areas for local authorities are estimates. Urban areas are defined as those settlements with populations greater than 1,000 during the census in 1991.
3 1999 data have been used for these authorities (Dundee City, Falkirk, Scottish Borders and West Lothian)
4 1993 data have been used for this authority (Highland)

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