Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Survey 2018

Data collection undertaken to establish the extent and state of vacant and derelict land in Scotland.

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Annex B – Derelict Land by Local Authority Area

Annex Table 3 - Derelict Land as a percentage of total area by local authority, 2018

Local Authority Total Derelict Land (ha) Total Area (ha)2 % of Local Authority Derelict
Aberdeen City 13 20,563 0.1
Aberdeenshire 43 633,822 0.0
Angus 229 220,321 0.1
Argyll and Bute3 38 716,379 0.0
Clackmannanshire 46 16,391 0.3
Dumfries and Galloway 301 667,605 0.0
Dundee City 17 6,222 0.3
East Ayrshire 1,736 127,034 1.4
East Dunbartonshire 43 17,449 0.2
East Lothian 78 70,094 0.1
East Renfrewshire 34 17,425 0.2
City of Edinburgh 88 27,300 0.3
Falkirk 208 31,493 0.7
Fife 598 137,392 0.4
Glasgow City 580 17,645 3.3
Highland5 1,276 2,647,292 0.0
Inverclyde 83 17,363 0.5
Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park3,4 6 186,340 0.0
Midlothian 107 35,527 0.3
Moray 7 225,709 0.0
Na h-Eileanan Siar * 326,847 0.0
North Ayrshire 1,098 90,390 1.2
North Lanarkshire 1,189 47,222 2.5
Orkney Islands 32 108,621 0.0
Perth and Kinross3 17 541,894 0.0
Renfrewshire 160 26,924 0.6
Scottish Borders 45 474,268 0.0
Shetland Islands 6 165,662 0.0
South Ayrshire 96 123,471 0.1
South Lanarkshire 296 177,402 0.2
Stirling3 117 225,481 0.1
West Dunbartonshire3 152 18,278 0.8
West Lothian 304 43,159 0.7
Scotland4 9,044 8,208,987 0.1

1. Figures may not sum due to rounding.

2. Land areas were derived from the latest local authority boundaries produced by Ordnance Survey. Figures may not add exactly because of rounding. Source: https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/boundaryline.html.

3. From 2011 Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park took responsibility for surveying vacant and derelict land within the park boundaries. These sites are no longer recorded in Argyll and Bute, Perth and Kinross, Stirling and West Dunbartonshire local authority boundaries, and are separately identifiable as Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park from 2011. Prior to 2011 these sites were classified within the relevant local authority boundary.

4. Although the land area for Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park is separately identified it is also included within the land area for the relevant local authorities that overlap the park. Therefore the total land area for Scotland does not include this separately identified land area for Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park.

5. Data for Highland is carried over from 2015.

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