The building serves as the offices and meeting place of West Lothian Council as well as the venue for hearings of Livingston Sheriff Court.

[1] However, the council also owned Lindsay House on South Bridge Street, Bathgate, which had been built as the Burgh Chambers for the old Bathgate Town Council in 1966,[2] and West Lothian House on Almondvale Boulevard in Livingston, which had been built as the headquarters of the Livingston Development Corporation in 1981.

[3] The council wanted to consolidate its activities at one location:[4] the site it selected was just north of Livingston town centre on the bank of the River Almond.

[5] The building was designed by BDP in the Modern style, built by Laing O'Rourke with a steel frame and limestone cladding at a cost of £53 million, and was completed in July 2009.

[9][10] The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage facing west onto Hochsauerland Brae.