West Lothian Council

West Lothian Council has submitted a planning application for six new council homes on the site of an old community centre in Bathgate. The proposed two-storey development on Marjoribanks Street includes the construction of new low-rise housing with private gardens, communal soft

The regeneration of the Deans South estate in Livingston has taken another step forward with the conclusion of the sale of public-owned land to Springfield Properties. Last November a meeting of West Lothian Council’s executive agreed to sell 11 acres of land to the housebuilder for

Taylor Wimpey East Scotland has started work to deliver the first of 69 affordable homes for Home Group Scotland at its Calderwood development on land off Clifton Road in East Calder. This parcel of land within phase 4 of Taylor Wimpey’s Calderwood development will provide a mix of two and thr

Construction work to build new council homes at Eagle Brae, Livingston is now well under way.

Rent arrears accrued by council tenants in West Lothian are moving towards £3 million, with more than half the council tenants in South Livingston, and a similar number in Armadale and Blackridge, behind with their rent. Rent collection in both wards, as revealed to local area committees last

Work has begun on twenty nine new council homes at Deans South in Livingston. They include a mixture of two, three, four and five-bedroom houses and two and three-bedroom bungalows.

West Lothian Council has received 13 expressions of interest in the potential redevelopment of Linlithgow’s Vennel site. The opening of the Linlithgow Partnership Centre has resulted in a number of properties in and around the Vennel area in Linlithgow becoming vacant and surplus to requi

It has been revealed that there are over 10,000 current applications for social housing in West Lothian. The West Lothian Courier submitted a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to West Lothian Council and discovered that as of April 7, there are 10,509 applications on the common register for housi

Councillors have rejected plans to build a housing complex for young people in Livingston due to a number of “significant errors” contained within the planning application and a perceived lack of community consultation.

Coronavirus safety restrictions have badly hit turnaround times for letting empty homes to new tenants in West Lothian. Vacant council homes were one of the regular complaints received by West Lothian councillors well before the COVID-19 lockdowns materialised last March.

A planning application has been submitted for a boating holiday park in a West Lothian quarry. North Coulston Ltd submitted plans to West Lothian Council and it was validated on March 31.

The number of homeless families being placed in hotels and bed and breakfasts in West Lothian has fallen by over 80%. From March 2019 until March 2020, the use of such accommodation dropped from 77 to 13 in March 2020 for families with children.

Almost 8000 new applications for social housing have been received by West Lothian Council in the last three years. The West Lothian Courier submitted a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to the local authority and asked a range of questions on the social housing and homelessness waiting lists.

West Lothian Council has approved plans for a new housing development in the village of Kirknewton Developer CC Drummond learned on March 1 that planning permission in principle has been granted for 48 new residential units.

West Lothian Council has received 1,426 homelessness applications were received in 2020/21 (up to March 1) with less than a quarter of those applications with children in the household. In 2019, the council launched its local Rapid Rehousing Transition Plan (RRTP) to increase access to all social re