Current status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 5 December 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the statement by the Minister for Public Finance on 12 November 2024 that more than 164,000 homes have planning permission but have not yet been built, whether it will provide a breakdown of the number of these homes in each local authority area.
The following data was aggregated to create a broad national picture of the scale of land across Scotland with consent which has not yet been built out. It is not intended for comparison at authority level. The national figure provided contextual information for the development and publication of our Planning and the Housing Emergency Delivery Plan.
We will shortly publish new guidance on Housing Land Audits, to help build a clearer picture of the availability of housing land across Scotland.
Authorities | Remaining capacity (units of housing) of land included in Housing Land Audits with planning consent |
City of Edinburgh | 20,593 |
Glasgow | 20,388 |
North Lanarkshire | 14,859 |
Fife | 13,181 |
West Lothian | 12,298 |
Aberdeen City | 11,406 |
Aberdeenshire | 10,822 |
Perth & Kinross | 9,724 |
South Lanarkshire | 9,005 |
East Lothian | 7,019 |
Midlothian | 6,886 |
Renfrewshire | 6,569 |
Stirling | 5,562 |
Dumfries & Galloway | 2,499 |
Dundee | 2,154 |
Falkirk | 2,090 |
West Dunbartonshire | 1,896 |
Argyll & Bute | 1,683 |
Angus | 1,527 |
Clackmannanshire | 1,461 |
East Renfrewshire | 1,036 |
Inverclyde | 1,015 |
East Dunbartonshire | 711 |
Total | 164,384 |