Plans have been lodged for a massive housing development of 1600 homes at Heartlands in Whitburn.
An application has been lodged that will also see land earmarked and for a primary school, a neighbourhood centre including a pub/restaurant, community centre, retail, health centre and start-up offices.
The 78.4 hectare mixed-use development - comprising affordable housing - is part of the wider Heartlands Masterplan from Green Town (Heartlands) Ltd.
Heartlands is one of the largest regeneration projects in Europe with £650 million being invested residentially and commercially, transforming the area to the west of Whitburn.
The land at Heartlands forms a key part of the masterplan development to deliver around 2000 new homes and commercial space, as well as retail and leisure facilities.
An application for outline planning permission for integrated business, residential and golf-courses development; also including hotel, leisure, community and visitors’ facilities, forestry planting, landscaping, road construction, motorway junction and transport interchange’ was granted in May 2006.
This established the development area for up to 5000 new homes.
Since then, a number of housing applications have been approved in the wider Heartlands Masterplan Area.
Last year three retail stores and a new Tesco supermarket with a petrol station were approved and in 2018 West Lothian Council granted permission for a drive-thru restaurant and drive-thru coffee shop, creating up to 100 jobs, which have since been opened.
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