Rapidly expanding Winchburgh may not get its promised railway station as costs have soared in a decade and developers question the commuter demand post Covid.
And this week an SNP councillor accused the Labour led administration on the council of being “suckered by the developers.”
However, head of planning Craig McCorriston told a meeting of the development and transport policy development and scrutiny panel (PDSP) that the council had not been allowed to make the station a condition of Winchburgh’s growth – on the command of the government agency Transport Scotland.
