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Chamber and committees

Question reference: S6W-13926

  • Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: 13 January 2023
  • Current status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 27 January 2023

Question

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.


Answer

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