Turning fertile farmland into a housing estate would “destroy a precious resource” and ruin the character of a village already facing massive change.
That was the assertion on the one of the hundreds of objectors to plans by Springfield Properties to develop open countryside at Burnhouse Farm on the north side of Dechmont.
Springfield sought planning permission in principle to develop 30 acres of fields, building around 160 new homes on land which rises to the Bathgate Hills from the village off what is currently a narrow B-road leading to Linlithgow.
