Plans to empower communities across West Lothian will just be a "talking shop" unless changes are made to existing land sale policies, a Livingston councillor has said.
Attending the inaugural meeting of the Economy, Community Empowerment and Wealth Building Policy Development and Scrutiny Panel, (PDSP) Councillor Andrew Miller (SNP) said that if the council was serious about developing community empowerment it would have to give more consideration of community benefit to land sales.
He described two recent instances in north Livingston, including a bid from the Edinburgh Monarchs to locate a new speedway stadium in the town, where he felt that community benefit was treated as secondary to purely financial considerations.
