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Plan for more Midlothian homes on estate thrown out as enough houses "eked out"

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AuthorMarie Sharp
Published date27 June 2022
Publication titleEdinburghLive (Scotland)
Miller Homes wanted to build an additional nine houses on a strip of green land between two woods on the edge of a nearly completed housing estate outside Newtongrange

The land, at Cockpen Farm, was set aside to be used as open or green space when housing was built.

However Miller Homes argued it would be a 'logical extension' to 140 homes being built on the nearly complete Lady Victoria Grange estate.

Planners refused to approve the proposals for nine additional homes on the land and at a meeting of Midlothian Council's Local Review Body today councillors backed the decision.

The review body was told there had been 17 objections to the additional housing with residents already living in the housing estate saying they had been told the space would be kept as amenity land and would lose their views.

Review body convenor Councillor Russell Imrie recalled the site being proposed for more housing being set aside as open land as part of the original development.

He said: "It was always deemed to be open space, the green lung, as it was. We eked out as many houses as we possibly could on the site.

"We found the balance between development and green space and the applicant knew that at the...

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