What land in Dumfries and Galloway has been purchased by it or the former Scottish Office since 1970 for the purpose of improvements to the…

Since the late 1970s land has been acquired and used for 13 major schemes on the A75. Listed from west to east, the schemes are the Glenluce Bypass, Newton Stewart Bypass, Blackcraig Improvement, Creetown Bypass, Gatehouse Bypass, Barluka Diversion (Twynholm Bypass), Ringford Bypass, Castle Douglas Bypass, The Glen, Dumfries Bypass, Collin Bypass, Carrutherstown to Hetland Improvement and the Annan Bypass. 31.2 hectares of land was also acquired in the early 1990s for two other schemes which failed to secure funding, at Dunragit and between Halfway and Shennanton.