Question reference: S6W-14556
- Date lodged: 30 January 2023
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Current status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 21 February 2023
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many hectares of land each local authority (a) currently owns and (b) owned (i) five, (ii) 10 and (iii) 20 years ago.
Answer
This is a question for the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland. She advises me that current ownership for each local authority is provided in the following table. This is provided from a combination of titles in the Land Register and General Register of Sasines, and as the areas held in Sasines are indicative rather than definitive it provides a best estimate.
Whilst it is possible to retrieve historic ownership details for specific plots of land, Scotland-wide views of the Land Register showing aggregate ownership by specific parties at five, 10, or 20 years ago are not maintained, and the nature of the General Register of Sasines means it is not feasible to retrieve historic ownership information en masse .
Local Authority | Area (hectares) |
Aberdeen City | 1,100 |
Aberdeenshire | 764 |
Angus | 825 |
Argyll and Bute | 143 |
City of Edinburgh | 1,434 |
Clackmannanshire | 665 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 454 |
Dundee City | 523 |
East Ayrshire | 645 |
East Dunbartonshire | 325 |
East Lothian | 854 |
East Renfrewshire | 405 |
Falkirk | 798 |
Fife | 2,823 |
Glasgow City | 1,622 |
Highland | 1,164 |
Inverclyde | 1,956 |
Midlothian | 378 |
Moray | 424 |
Na h-Eileanan an Iar | 4 |
North Ayrshire | 1,858 |
North Lanarkshire | 7,018 |
Orkney Islands | 417 |
Perth and Kinross | 440 |
Renfrewshire | 1,849 |
Scottish Borders | 1,391 |
Shetland Islands | 2,989 |
South Ayrshire | 186 |
South Lanarkshire | 3,653 |
Stirling | 1,091 |
West Dunbartonshire | 478 |
West Lothian | 5,274 |
Total | 43,949 |
Figures were current on 6 February 2023.