Plans for a new housing development on the fringe of Whitburn are set to return to West Lothian Council.

Developers at the Heartlands site, which covers for former Polkemmet Colliery, pulled proposals for almost 2,000 new homes just a day before they were supposed to go to councillors last week.

Now the plan put forward by Green Town Heartlands, which outlines 1,600 new homes, will have to go back to a meeting of the full council, because of the size of the development.

Its planning committee meets only rarely. The last time it was convened was in 2023 to consider proposals for housing on a site at Brotherton Farm between Polbeth and Livingston.

No reason was given when the plan was withdrawn on Wednesday afternoon. It was scheduled to go before the full council planning committee the

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