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Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Survey: Site Register
Every vacant or derelict site of 0.1 ha or more that the 32 Scottish councils and the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park report to the yearly survey (3,091 sites in the 2025 register): planning authority, site code, name, address, centroid easting and northing, hectares, site type (vacant land, derelict), location (settlement size), owner class for up to two owners (Local Authority, Other Private, Network Rail and so on; no owner names), period it became vacant or derelict, previous use, development potential, data zone. Collected: sites of 1 ha or more (pipeline/collectors/scotgov-vdls.mjs), made GB sites by pipeline/spatial/gb-brownfield-sites.mjs. Scotland's counterpart of England's brownfield land registers (Scotland). Rare Context republishes 10,307 facts from Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Survey: Site Register under Open Government Licence v3.0, linked to owners and places.
About this source
| Publisher's page | https://www.gov.scot/publications/the-scottish-vacant-and-derelict-land-survey-site-register/ |
| Licence | Open Government Licence v3.0 |
| Credit | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 |
| Licence terms | Open Government Licence v3.0: gov.scot states "All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except for graphic assets and where otherwise stated", and the publication page shows the OGL v3.0 mark; the register states no exception. Attribution: "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0" (Scottish Government, Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Survey: Site Register). Owner classes only, no personal data. Checked 2026-10-24 |
| Coverage | Scotland |
| Access | One ODS file per survey year linked from the publication page (SVDLS_2025_Register.ods, published 2025-09-30). The Improvement Service's Spatial Hub republishes it with polygons, but its WFS needs a registered key (HTTP 403 without) |
| Refresh | Annual |
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Public claims as JSON Lines, one record per line. Listed claims carry no value. Every source's public claims together, as CSV, are in the open data download.
| File | Records | Updated | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| vdl_sites.jsonl | 11,546 | 24 Oct 2026 | 24 Oct 2026 |
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- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Survey: Site Register, Open Government Licence v3.0.