SCOTLAND has nearly 9400 hectares of vacant and derelict land, according to newly released data.
The Scottish Government’s latest site register – published last month – lists 3201 vacant or derelict sites across Scotland.
Equating to roughly 36.2 square miles, or the size of Dundee and Livingston combined, it ranges from a former MoD munitions site to an abandoned building in Glasgow’s Tradeston.
Regardless, these sites are sitting there unused – sometimes for decades – with campaigners highlighting that this land could go to much better use, including helping to tackle Scotland’s housing and homelessness crisis.
Below is an interactive map of all of Scotland’s vacant and derelict sites:
In terms of local authority, the most derelict land is found in North Lanarkshire followed by Glasgow (below).
The largest site in Scotland, meanwhile, is a huge parcel of land in Dumfries and Galloway, which used to be an MoD munitions site before it was closed in 2010. The third largest is a former oil fabrication yard at the Port of Ardersier on the Moray Firth (below).
