West Lothian councillors have called for more clarity on when brown bin charges could be scrapped for residents.

When West Lothian first introduced a £50 a year charge to uplift garden waste last summer, householders were told that Holyrood would eventually pick up the costs through increased grant aid to councils.

More than a year later however, council waste managers told Conservative councillor Alison Adamson that they have heard nothing about plans to make garden rubbish uplift a statutory service- and potentially free to households.

And the Local Democracy Reporting Service can reveal it will be at least another year before a change is even considered by the Scottish Government.

A report on the year’s performance of waste management service went before the Environment and Sustaina

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