Dundas Estates is set to redevelop the site, which lies on west side of Alderstone Road between the Almondvale roundabout and the Campus roundabout, with 62 flats and 26 houses.

The site lies within the employment boundary of Kirkton Campus as identified in the adopted West Lothian Local Development Plan, 2018.

Business pavilions on the land had been extensively vandalised until their final demolition earlier this year. The nine brick-built, two-storey business units were constructed in the 1990s under Livingston Development Corporation.

In a report that went before the council’s development management committee a planning officer acknowledged: ”Livingston’s got countless ‘To Let’ signs”, and added there was no realistic opportunity to develop the site for business.

In a report to committee planners said: “The character of this area of Livingston has changed, and whilst not all former employment land within the Kirkton Campus area would be suitable for redevelopment as housing, this site has the benefit of its location immediately adjacent to the identified Livingston town centre.

“The sustainable, edge of centre location, good public transport and pedestrian connections.”