The Scottish Government has backed West Lothian Council’s rejection of the latest controversial plans to build a park and ride car park in Kirknewton, saying it posed a risk to pedestrian safety.
Stirling Developments had appealed the refusal of its proposal to build a fifty space car park on what is open farmland on the edge of the village close to the war memorial.
But a Reporter assigned by Holyrood Division of Planning and Environmental Appeals (DPEA) agreed with councillors that the footpath leading up to the station could not be made safer for pedestrians, no matter what remedial engineering was put in place.
