| 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.
There were four industrial esates within Livingston - Houstoun, Deans, Bellsquarry and Kirkton Campus. Kirkton Campus was a high amenity estate aimed at high technology firms.
To maintain control of the nature of development with Livingston, it was Corporation policy not to sell land on industrial estates or to industrial tenants. Some exceptions existed on this however, and as the Corporation began the process of winding up it sold many units to sitting tenants. |