Plans lodged fornew housing

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 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.

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.