Community groups and charities have benefited from almost £300,000 in the last year, thanks to payouts in wind farm cash from West Lothian Development Trust.
The newly formed Economy, Community Empowerment and Wealth Building policy Development and Scrutiny Panel heard that the Trust was formed in 2007 to administer payments made to community funds by wind farm companies.
The council adopted a policy which required that any community benefit received from wind farms should be distributed within six miles of the development (70% within three miles and the remaining 30% within six miles. It was agreed that a trust would distribute all community benefit payments.
