A planned industrial park which would have destroyed the last remaining open fields between Livingston and the village of Seafield has been rejected by councillors.
Hallam Land Management and Rosebery Estates sought planning permission in principle for a mixed-use development for business , industrial and storage and distribution units at Cousland Farm. The new industrial park proposed paving 61 acres of fields both north and south of the A705.
The land has been designated by West Lothian’s Local Development Plan (LDP) as for industrial/ commercial development - but despite this councillors voted to refuse the application after hearing from local residents who feared it would "ruin the rural atmosphere” of the village.
