Plans for a huge new housing development on the fringe of Whitburn are set to return to West Lothian Council.

Developers at the Heartlands site which covers for former Polkemmet Colliery pulled proposals for almost 2,000 new homes just a day before they were supposed to go to councillors last week.

Now the plan put forward by Green Town Heartlands Ltd, which outlines 1,600 new homes will have to go back to a meeting of the full West Lothian Council, because of the size of the development.

The full council planning committee meets only rarely. The last time it was convened was in 2023 to consider proposals for housing on a site at Brotherton Farm between Polbeth and Livingston

No reason was given when the plan was withdrawn on Wednesday afternoon. It was scheduled to go before the ful

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