A row between tenant farmers and West Lothian Council over plans to create a new public path through grazing land beside a loch could end up in a lengthy and costly legal battle if it cannot be resolved, officials have warned.
Hopes have risen that a solution can be agreed on the future development at Lady Park in Linlithgow, after Countryside manager Andy Johnston told the latest meeting of the town’s Local Area Committee that a meeting between the council Trustees of Lady Park and the existing tenants of the largely grazing land beside the loch has been organised for next week.
At the June meeting of the committee, newly elected chair Councillor Sally Pattle had asked if a meeting could be ordered citing “a complete breakdown of communication.”
