| AdminHistory | In the initial Master Plan for Livingston, the town was to be split into districts; ten were to be used for housing whilst four were predominately given over to industry. Prior to 1962 there were just two companies within the designated area - the paper mill of Adam Robertson and Co Ltd, and Roneo Ltd, producers of duplicators. The Master Plan projected providing jobs for 40% of the population, rising to 45% in later years. On initial population projections for the town, that equated to 45,000 jobs.
To stimulate such rapid growth, and concurrent with marketing strategies and a number of beneficial rates available to companies locating in Livingston, the Development Corporation created a number of industrial estates within the designated area; provided advance factories, so that units were available for occupation at all times; incorporated space for expansion into all plots so that companies could continue; and provided a client management service. The Corporation was extremely unwilling to sell land, and in the vast majority of cases it would only lease factories and commercial premises to tenants. |
| ScopeandContent | 5 series comprising:
1. Files on Factory Projects, which were those projects that provided specialized or tailored premises, 1974-1995.
2. Feasibility Studies, which were developed over time as the initial step in a factory project, 1982-1994.
3. Industrial Estate Property Files, a file for individual units that the Corporation owned; these files contain any material created and aggregated by the Corporation when managing that property, 1963-1996.
4. Files relating to the disposal of industrial assets, 1991-1994.
5. Files relating to the proposed but ultimately never developed Linhouse Industrial Area, 1984-1996. |