The former health centre in Blackburn’s Ash Grove is to be converted into eight shops after the Local Review Body overturned planning officers’ refusal of proposals.
Blackburn native, and Bathgate councillor, Willie Boyle said the council had failed the village with the shopping centre’s closure - and argued that to block the new plans would fail them again.
He pointed out that the village has already lost its community centre and is set to lose what little retail space there is left with the demolition of part of the shopping centre close by, and its eventual replacement with houses.
