Local Development Plan

Local Development Plan  

Under the terms of emerging legislation from the Scottish Government, the council will be required to prepare a local development plan (LDP) for the area. The LDP will set out development patterns at a local level for West Lothian and will implement the terms of the Strategic Development Plan (SDP).

The council is required annually to publish a Development Plan Scheme document that sets out the programme for preparing, reviewing and consulting on the LDP. On 21 February 2012 therefore, the Council Executive approved a replacement Development Plan Scheme document to that approved in June 2011. The new Development Plan Scheme No.4 for the LDP has also be submitted to Scottish Ministers. It can be viewed below and is accompanied by a questionnaire. It sets out how we intend to proceed with the LDP and also includes a Participation Statement. We would welcome your views on its content.

Please complete the above form, save, then attach and send to the Development Plan team at localdevelopmentplan@westlothian.gov.uk Thank you.

NB Please ensure that Adobe Reader is as up-to-date as possible and has permission to save these forms before filling out. If it does not save, please print out and send to: Colin Miller, Development Planning Manager, FREEPOST SCO4880, West Lothian Council, County Buildings, High Street, Linlithgow, EH49 7EZ.

Call for sites

As part of the process in producing the LDP, a Main Issues Report (MIR) must be published. To help with this process the council undertook a call for sites between 28 January and 6 May 2011 and received 225 submissions in all, 20 council owned sites of which were removed by the Council Executive on 28 June 2011. The 'call for sites' process was agreed to be undertaken by the Council Executive on 11 January 2011 and it was considered that having an early indication of potential development sites available for various uses would benefit preparation of the MIR. The link to that report is provided below:

As part of the preparatory work on the MIR, all sites will be assessed on their own merits and in the context of the strategic requirement for new housing land and other land uses, in addition to identifying and assessing any constraints. Strategic requirements for housing land are set out in the Strategic Development Plan, prepared by SESplan - the Strategic Development Plan Authority.

Please note that the sites submitted for consideration as part of the call for sites process does not guarantee that the site will move forward for inclusion and allocation in the West Lothian Local Development Plan. Any sites that are included will also be subject to the normal planning application process and no planning applications have been submitted to the council on these sites at this time.

The list of sites submitted (minus the sites removed by the Council Executive of 28 June 2011) in numerical order is provided in the first document below:

Detailed information on the sites submitted relating to each settlement from those listed in the above database can be found at the links below:

For ease of use we have applied a bookmark facility for the allocated number to the site. (You will find the bookmark icon from the side bar on the left).

All sites have been reported to the council's Local Area Committees for their noting. Officers are now engaged in the process of assessing these sites.

Any queries should be directed to the council's contacts below as follows:

Fiona McBrierty, Principal Planner, Development Planning, 01506 282418 or fiona.mcbrierty@westlothian.gov.uk

Steven McLucas, Planning Officer, Development Planning, 01506 282425 or steve.mclucas@westlothian.gov.uk

Steve Lovell, Planning Officer, Development Planning, 01506 282430 or steve.lovell@westlothian.gov.uk

Updated 26/03/12

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