Planning and Land Use Statistics Maria Melling Ian Volante Aisha Ahmed

Branch Responsibilities Annual Surveys Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Survey Planning Consents for Affordable Housing survey Development Work Housing Land Audit Scottish Generalised Land Use database

Scottish Vacant & Derelict Land Survey SVDLS is an annual survey Well established – 2007 is the 17 th survey in the series Enhanced surveys have been conducted since Site based return Main purpose – to provide a national source to inform the programming of the –Rehabilitation –Planning –Reuse of urban vacant & derelict land

Scottish Vacant & Derelict Land Survey Main point to note from 2007 survey 10,240 hectares of derelict and urban vacant land recorded: 2,660 hectares (26%) were urban vacant 7,580 hectares were derelict (74%). North Lanarkshire has the highest amount of recorded derelict and urban vacant land with 1,399 hectares (14% Scottish Total) Followed by Glasgow with 1,268 hectares (12% )

Scottish Vacant & Derelict Land Survey Results of the survey are available: Statistical Bulletin On line at the Planning Statistics page –Current bulletin –Current site register –Previous bulletins back to 1996 –Basic & more detailed guidelines on completion –Links to related areas

Scottish Vacant & Derelict Land Survey Main policy users of SVDLS Regeneration Unit Used to inform the allocation of the Scottish Vacant & Derelict Land Fund Glasgow, North & South Lanarkshire obtained funding from the VDLF for the second time for

Planning Consents for Affordable Housing survey This survey was run for the first time in Data was requested for the financial years and The deadline for survey has just passed. In the first year, 31 of the 34 Planning Authorities provided a return. This is NOT a survey of newly built affordable units or units under construction It IS information is recorded on affordable units at the first stage of delivery

Planning Consents for Affordable Housing survey The main points emerging from the survey are: An estimated 12,173 affordable housing units were granted planning consent. 5,463 during ,710 during % (9,526) of those units are to be publicly funded In addition, a further 215 planning applications contain developers commuted payments for affordable housing. Glasgow had the largest number of proposed units granted planning consent – 1,952 units, 16%.

Planning Consents for Affordable Housing survey The results are available in the following ways: In the Statistical bulletin. On the Planning Statistics web site –Statistical bulletin table & charts –Housing Profile pages for each Local Authority –Data for the Housing Profile tables.

Planning Consents for Affordable Housing survey Housing Profiles pages were included to provide some context to the specific affordable housing issues in each Local Authority. The data included covers the following The LAs Affordable Housing policy Comparison of individual LAs data with the Scotland average; covering –Population statistics –Lower Quartile House Prices & Earnings –Housing statistics –Suspension of Right-to-Buy

Planning Consents for Affordable Housing survey The main users of this data are: Policy colleagues as part of the evidence in monitoring the effectiveness of PAN74 Housing colleagues to identify where the affordable houses are being given planning position

Developmental Work Housing Land Audits Initially being developed to provide data on the number of affordable housing units being built. Alternative approach to collecting affordable housing being considered. A consistent approach to producing the HLA across all Planning Authorities is being developed. The following areas are some of those that need to be consulted on: –Agreed core set of variables –Agreed definitions – housing completions

Developmental Work Scottish Generalised Land Use dataset A bid has been made for Planning research money to produce a Scottish GLUD. This would be based on the methodology used in England. This would break Scotland down into land parcels, covering –Buildings –Gardens –Paths –Roads –Greenspace

Developmental Work Scottish Generalised Land Use dataset As a second stage, consideration will be given to additional datasets that could be used to enhance the detail of basic GLUD. These would cover –Greenspace Scotland data –Address layer 2

Developmental Work Scottish Generalised Land Use dataset A Scottish GLUD would provide basic land use information for Scotland. This would be useful for a number of work areas with in the Scottish Government such as: –Planners –Flood Division –Rural Affairs Divisions Detailed maps on specific areas or to address specific questions could be developed as this dataset was used and expanded.

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