Services
Community planning, locality planning and multi-member wards
Councillors and multi-member wards
West Lothian has nine multi-member wards. Each ward has three or four elected members.
Ward 1: Linlithgow
Ward 2: Broxburn, Uphall and Winchburgh
Ward 3: Livingston North
Ward 4: Livingston South
Ward 5: East Livingston and East Calder
Ward 6: Fauldhouse and the Breich Valley
Ward 7: Whitburn and Blackburn
Ward 8: Bathgate
Ward 9: Armadale and Blackridge
Community Planning and Regeneration
The Council's Community Planning and Regeneration Service delivers a broad range of services and activities in five key areas: Economic Strategy and Policy; Business and Enterprise; Employment and Skills; Community Planning and Community Regeneration. To deliver its diverse, high quality services, the Community Planning and Regeneration service works in partnership with a wide range of public, private and voluntary sector organisations. The Community Planning and Regeneration Service Annual Report can be found in the online tools section of this page.
Community Planning
Community Planning is a process or way of working which brings together a range of agencies from the public, private, voluntary business and community sectors to work together to improve the quality of life for local people.
There is a recognition that the needs of local people cannot be met by just one organisation; and that by working together, better and more responsive services can be delivered.
To find out more about the West Lothian Community Planning Partnership follow this link
Locality Planning
Locality Planning is effectively Community Planning at a local level. Like Community Planning, Locality Planning aims to ensure that people and communities are genuinely engaged in decisions on public services that affect them. The Locality planning process in West Lothian encourages local communities and organisations to work together to jointly plan services at a local level, resulting in services that are much more responsive to local needs.
Locality Planning Officers (LPO's) in West Lothian Council's Communities Team have developed Locality Plans (LP's) for each of the nine multi-member wards in West Lothian. With the assistance and support of Lead Officers, they have established steering groups which include officers from services across the Community Planning Partnership (CPP) that have identified local priorities. Multi-agency working groups have also been established to develop action plans for each of these priorities.
The main Locality Plans are essesntially working documents for those in the steering group and working groups involved in delivering services related to the identified priorities. Summary Locality Plans have been produced to explain how and why priorities have been chosen and give examples of proposed activities that will contribute to addressing the issues identified.
Summary Locality Plans can be found by clicking on the links below.
Armadale and Blackridge Locality Plan
Bathgate Summary Locality Plan
Broxburn, Uphall and Winchburgh Summary Locality Plan
East Livingston and East Calder Summary Locality Plan
Fauldhouse and the Breich Valley Summary Locality Plan
Linlithgow Summary Locality Plan
Livingston North Summary Locality Plan
Livingston South Summary Locality Plan
Whitburn and Blackburn Summary Locality Plan
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Councillors
West Lothian is made up of nine multi-member wards, with a total of 32 councillors.
Could your family benefit?
Local families could be due more help with their rent and council tax.
Open4Communities - look for grants
A new website to help West Lothian groups obtain money for their projects has been launched.
