Improving West Lothian Over £201 million is set to be invested in West Lothian’s infrastructure and council owned properties between next year and 2033. The investment plan is set to be agreed next week as part of the council’s long term capital investment plan which is being presented to a meeting of Full Council next week. Investment overall This year alone (2025/26) approximately £61 million would be spent on local infrastructure. This is in addition to the £68 million that was spent last year (2024/25). Capital funding is generated through Scottish Government grant funding, income generated through the sale of council owned assets such as land and properties, borrowing and other sources of funding – which are given to us for specific projects. Here’s where the £61million would be spent in 2025/26: • Over £48.8million of property improvements, new projects and maintenance • Over £6million on roads, footways, street lighting, bridges and structures and flood prevention and drainage • Over £3.5million on open spaces, parks, sports facilities, children’s play area & cemeteries • £2.6 on Information Communication Technology For more details on each bullet point, please click on the link: https://news.westlothian.gov.uk/article/84802/Improving-West-Lothian Capital funding is one off amounts of funding used to upgrade/repair existing infrastructure or build new assets, such as new buildings, school extensions or new roads and paths. Capital funding cannot be used on day-to-day running costs & is a different budget to council tax which is part of a revenue budget (day to day services)