• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer

Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland

assisting the public to exercise their rights in environmental law

  • Home
  • About us
    • Our purpose, mission & values
    • Our people
    • Our funders
    • Membership
  • Get advice
  • Our rights
    • Campaigns
      • Ending engine idling
      • Fossil Free Law
  • Law reform
  • Legal action
  • Resources
  • Donate
< View all resources

Reclaiming contaminated land & unaffordable, unfair access to justice

Publication Date
17 August 2022
Type
  • Lived experience
Topic
  • Access to justice
  • Land and soil
  • Participation in decision-making
Synopsis

In the Murieston Valley, Livingston lies a plot of vacant contaminated land which is now a valued local greenspace. Despite significant community concerns, a planning application was approved on appeal. Find out more about their struggle and how “its the financial side that inhibits the small man from doing something”.

Read

Share this

Related Resources

  • Lived experience (1 October 2021)

    Guide to the right to protest

  • Lived experience (22 July 2022)

    Evaluation of Scotland’s action plan on access to environmental justice

  • Lived experience (26 July 2023)

    Campaigners aghast as UK Government snubs call for equal rights in planning – press release

  • Lived experience (10 October 2024)

    Access to justice FAQ

View All Resources

Footer

Contact us

Office number: 0131 358 0038

Freephone number: 0800 861 1738

Office hours 9am – 5pm weekdays

or use the contact form

OSCR Registered SCIO SC050257

ERCS Justice for People and the Environment

Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland

Mansfield Traquair Centre
15 Mansfield Place
Edinburgh, EH3 6BB

  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • YouTube

Copyright © 2020–2025, Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland (ERCS) • Site by Lynx Graphic Design • Site Credits • Privacy Policy

  • Home
  • Get advice
  • Sign up to our newsletter
  • Become a member
  • Donate
We use cookies to help give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. Privacy policyOK