Bathgate’s Community Centre Management Committee is the latest to refuse to sign up to council plans for change.

The Committee has won the agreement of community groups for its plans to hand over management of the community facilities to the council from April next year.

The current management committee which oversees lets of public space in the Bathgate partnership building on South Bridge Street had proposed its own dissolution .

In a communication to council officers and councillors, Donald Stavert from the management committee said: “You have left us with no option but to reject the only option you offered us.”

He added: “We have explained our decision to our members, user groups, elected members, residents of Bathgate and the Community Council.

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