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The four-way motorway interchange at Burghmuir has
a high level of support combined with a low level of indifference putting it at the head of the table. Infrastructure caused the highest level of debate with many stating no further development in Linlithgow should be given planning permission without infrastructure improvement. In this context responses to the proposed development at Wilcoxholm Farm was heavily caveated as being too
large, adding to High St congestion, failing to address the urgent need for affordable, appropriately sized family housing, facilitating downsizing, and a plea for small bungalows/cottages “not all elderly people want to
live in sheltered housing”.
Many of the housing statements can be represented by this comment “I feel strongly that there should be more social housing and affordable housing built, as we are driving away young people from the town as they cannot afford to buy/rent houses here, even if they are available.”
A small Linlithgow enterprise commented “encouraging local employment to cut down the dependence on commuting is a laudable aim. The majority of our staff can’t afford to live in Linlithgow – this has been the case for much of the past 20 years but has grown particularly acute now. Most of the services one can access in Linlithgow are provided by workers who commute into these jobs from Bo’ness, the Braes, Bathgate and Broxburn. I strongly suggest that you conduct a survey, if one has not already been commissioned, of where service sector workers in town centre business come from and how they get there. Or, in fact, struggle to get here because of the poor bus links”.
The questionnaire results give a lot for the Planning Forum to think about in compiling the Linlithgow Local Place Plan which hopefully will be taken on board by West Lothian Council. At least the new Scottish Government legislation and guidance states that if proposals in a Local Place Plan are rejected then reasons must be given together with an opportunity to resubmit.
Please keep sending in the questionnaires – on paper at the Burgh Halls or online at www.llbcc.org.uk/planning.
The following issue of the magazine will have a more detailed analysis of the many consultation questionnaires received.
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