Two hard-hit towns in West Lothian can keep the £26,000 they could find no takers for during a recent cash award.
West Lothian Council’s Executive agreed that decisions on spending the Scottish Government money will revert to the Local Area Committees in Blackburn and Armadale. Both committees heard that despite repeated contacts by regeneration officers with the community groups there had been no takers for £10,000 in Town Centre Improvements funding in Blackburn, and for £16,000 in Armadale.
Councillors in both wards feared losing the money, which is awarded annually to all settlements in Scotland with a population of more than 1,000.
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