• 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

  • About us
        • About us
          • Our vision & work
          • Our people
          • Our funders
          • Membership
  • Take action
        • Campaigns
          • Clean Up Scotland’s Sewage
          • Stop Toxic Sewage Sludge
          • Ending Engine Idling
          • Fossil Free Law
        • Voices for Justice
          • Environmental Justice Network
  • What we do
        • Law reform
          • Right to a healthy environment
          • Aarhus Convention
          • Environment Court
          • Ecocide
        • Legal action
  • Resources
  • Get advice
  • 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

  • Press releases (5 September 2022)

    Environmental campaigners urge UN Body to recommend equal rights in Scotland’s planning system – press release

  • Briefings (9 December 2025)

    Summary of ERCS Advocacy Manifesto asks 2026

  • Briefings (22 August 2022)

    Equal rights of appeal and access to justice in Scotland

  • Press releases (16 November 2023)

    Still no progress on access to justice in Scotland as UN deadline looms – press release

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

Thorn House, Second floor
5 Rose Street
Edinburgh, EH2 2PR

  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • YouTube

Copyright © 2020–2026, Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland (ERCS) • Site by Lynx Graphic Design • 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 policy