Saturday 10 January 2009

Dodgy Councillor.


"AN SNP councillor quit his local authority development post after his own leader showed him evidence he had ordered officials to drop their objections to a multi-million-pound planning application. Documents show that Jim Dickson, who until two weeks ago was chairman of West Lothian Council's development control committee, told planners that a proposed housing development near West Calder "had to be supported".

He's very dodgy, but why he was ever allowed to be into a position where there was a clear conflict of interest between his political and business interests raises even more questions about how West Lothian Council was and is being run.

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