Major Expansion to Business Park Approved

Man of Action Posted on February 9, 2015 Posted in News

A major expansion to Five Sisters Business Park, on the edge of Livingston, has been approved.

Pearson Planning, Chartered Surveyors obtained planning permission in principle (PPP) for 3 new building zones, extending to 8.39ha.
This doubles the size of the existing Business Park, owned by JJ Land Purchases Ltd.

The Masterplan for the expansion envisages 20 units (Use Classes 4, 5 & 6) being constructed, varying between 780-850m2.
Improved access will be created with a new roundabout on the B7015.
The Business Park lies to the east of the Five Sisters Bing, Scheduled Ancient Monument.

www.fivesistersbusinesspark.com

Edinburgh, 12 November, and Ivan McKee MSP announced to the national assembly that work on introducing a Community Infrstructure Levy in Scotland is “stopped”. Ivan ‘the terrible’ McKee recognised that the Levy was not welcome. There is a general acceptance, too, that much needed house building is being stalled by disproportionate obligation demands, and as Ivan says “unpredictable, costly and lengthy” planning application processes. McKee, branded ‘the terrible’ because of His handling of public finances north of the Cheviots, offers only one solution: higher planning fees! Genius! Increasing (again) authority revenues is not the solution. The vast majority of applications are determined by individual Officers (many of which have no professional qualifications) without the right of appeal. This needs to stop. SNP Government spending for 2023-2024 had a negative fiscal balance of -£22 billion. This must stop.