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SUPPORTING a council masterplan for the future of the former Cockenzie Power Station has becoming like “flogging a dead horse”, it was claimed this week. Cockenzie and Port Seton Community Council has backed East Lothian Council’s ‘visionary’ plan for the site since it was published nearly four years ago. The Cockenzie Masterplan was drawn up following public consultation at a cost of £150,000 but the local authority refused calls from the community council to adopt it, instead insisting it was a ‘visionary document’. Four years on, the site, which is owned by the council, remains undeveloped, with the only approved plans for the land a controversial substation, branded a “giant shed”, which will allow Inch Cape Offshore Limited to bring power from an offshore windfarm onto the land to feed into the National Grid.