Local and statutory development plans

LOCAL PLAN

The West Lothian Local Plan 2005 provides guidance on the location of development across West Lothian, based on meeting the requirements set by the approved Edinburgh & Lothians Structure Plan 2015. On adoption, this plan will become the first district wide local plan for West Lothian.

This local plan will eventually supersede the existing adopted Area Local Plans covering the Calders, Linlithgow, Livingston, Bathgate and Broxburn.

The council considered around 2,500 objections at the Public Local Inquiry which took place btween August 2006 and February 2007.

To access all the local plan documents, please select the Local Plan Document List in the Online Tools section.

Next steps

The council has now received the report of the Public Local Inquiry. A copy of this is now available to view in sections or as a full document in the Downloadable Document window below. The report is available to view in all libraries and CIS offices. We can also provide a hard copy at a cost of £25.00 from that date.   

The council has consided each recommendation and approved it's response to each recommendation at the Council Executive 16 June 2008. At the same meeting the council also approved proposed modifications to the plan.

The council is advertising the responses to recommendations and the proposed modifications for an eight week period from Monday 7 July until 5pm Monday 1 September. Please note that the council has also approved a further document after the Council Executive entitled Alterations & Additions to Pre-Adoption Modifications, which is attached below as document 23.  This is because it came to our attention that a small number of modifications were unfortunately either omitted in error or were incorrectly recorded in the original list of modifications. The council is allowing until 5pm on Monday 8 September for objections to be lodged to this document only. It is important to note that all other modifications will still be subject to the Monday 1 September deadline.

The documents are available for inspection in all council CIS offices and libraries. Parties will be able to make representations on responses to recommendations, where the council has not accepted the reporters recommendations and on any of the proposed modifications to the plan. The links to relevant documents and the online objection form are below:

• Approved Council Executive document 01: Response to reporters recommendations part 1
• Approved Council Executive document 02: Response to reporters recommendations part 2
• Approved Council Executive document 03: Response to reporters recommendations part 3
• Approved Council Executive document 04: Response to reporters recommendations part 4
• Approved Council Executive document 05: Proposed modifications
• Approved Council Executive document 06: Proposed modifications to proposals map: (key)
• Approved Council Executive document 07: Proposed modifications to proposals map: (maps 1 - 5)
• Approved Council Executive document 08: Proposed modifications to proposals map: (maps 6 - 10)
• Approved Council Executive document 09: Proposed modifications to proposals map: (maps 11 - 15)
• Approved Council Executive document 10: Proposed modifications to proposals map: (maps 16 - 20)
• Approved Council Executive document 11: Proposed modifications to proposals map: (maps 21 - 25)
• Approved Council Executive document 12: Proposed modifications to proposals map: (maps 26 - 30)
• Approved Council Executive document 13: Proposed modifications to proposals map: (maps 31 - 35)
• Approved Council Executive document 14: Proposed modifications to proposals map: (maps 36 -40)
• Approved Council Executive document 15: Proposed modifications to proposals map: (maps 41 -42)
• Approved Council Executive document 16: Guidance notes to objection form
• Approved Council Executive document 17: Objection form
• Approved Council Executive document 18: Appendix 5.1 - Employment Site s
• Approved Council Executive document 19: Appendix 6.1 - Housing Sites
• Approved Council Executive document 20: Appendix 7.2 - West Livingston/Mossend CDA Masterplan Boundary
• Approved Council Executive document 21: Appendix 11.1 - Safeguarded area of land understood to have silica (industrial) sandstone deposits
• Approved Council Executive document 22: Appendices 12.1 & 12.2 - Supplementary Planning Guidance

• Approved Council Executive document 23: Alterations and additions to pre-adoption modifications