Current status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 14 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown, by local authority area, of the area of green space currently being created and/or restored through projects funded by (a) the Vacant and Derelict Land Investment Programme and (b) the Nature Restoration Fund.
a)We do not request that each applicant provides a breakdown of green space created and/or restored by the Vacant and Derelict Land Investment Programme. However, 20 projects have received funding from the low carbon Vacant and Derelict Land Investment Programme to date and the projects listed in the following table include green space creation as their primary focus.
Project | Local Authority | Project Site Area |
Dalmarnock Riverside Park | Clyde Gateway | 3.50 ha |
Levern Water Revival | East Renfrewshire Council | 1.00 ha |
Lionthorn bing greenspace | Falkirk Council | 3.60 ha |
Belle Gro'@ The Meat Market | Glasgow City Council | 0.30 ha |
Transforming Avenue End Road Greenspace | Glasgow City Council | 3.60 ha |
Hamiltonhill Green Infrastructure Project | Glasgow City Council | 0.90 ha |
Ruchazie Greening and Growing project | Glasgow City Council | 3.70 ha |
Carwood Street Food Growing Project | Inverclyde Council | 0.22 ha |
Glenmanor Greenspace | North Lanarkshire Council | 0.49 ha |
Clyde Cycle Park | South Lanarkshire Council | 8.25 ha |
ONECarluke Community Growing | South Lanarkshire Council | 0.60 ha |
Community Food Growing – Former Bonhill PS | West Dunbartonshire Council | 0.47 ha |
Further to this the projects listed in the following table include green space creation as a part of their delivery.
Project | Local Authority | Project Site Area |
Western Villages Granton | City of Edinburgh Council | 4.50 ha |
Greendykes North Affordable Housing | City of Edinburgh Council | 2.10 ha |
Applications are currently open for Round 3 of the fund (for 2023-24 funding) and we anticipate announcing the next round of successful projects by the end of 2022.
b) We do not hold the information requested. Local Authorities were allocated £5 million from the 2021-22 Nature Restoration Fund. They have been asked to submit returns by the end of May 2022 setting out how the money has been used. Analysis of these returns has not yet started.