Craigshill is one of the poorest parts of West Lothian, yet three years into a national regeneration programme it is still being deprived of funds which properly reflect its dire conditions, a councillor claimed this week,
Councillor Frank Anderson, depute SNP group leader, won agreement from Tory group leader Damian Doran-Timson about the way the Town Centre Regeneration Fund, supplied by Holyrood, is distributed.
The fund ,which makes awards to communities across the country, is open to all with a population of over 1,000. It creates huge and obvious disparities. In Craigshill the spend is all the more noticeable because the Town Centre Fund makes one allocation for the whole of Livingston.
