Current status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 27 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many dangerous buildings notices have been issued under the Building (Scotland) Act 2003 in each year since 2003, broken down by local authority area.
The Scottish Government has collated Scotland level data on the number of enforcement notices since 2010. Information about notices should be available from individual local authorities via their online building standards registers on their websites. These have been publicly available since 2016. The number of notices issued under the Building (Scotland) Act 2003 is provided in the following table.
Year | Scotland |
2010-11 | 187 |
2011-12 | 219 |
2012-13 | 140 |
2013-14 | 135 |
2014-15 | 176 |
2015-16 | 180 |
2016-17 | 106 |
2017-18 | 163 |
2018-19 | 74 |
2019-20 | 122 |
2020-21 | 92 |
2021-22 | 124 |
Table - Number of enforcement notices issued