New Site for Car Sales in Midlothian

Man of Action Posted on February 7, 2014 Posted in News

Midlothian Council has granted temporary planning permission for the sale & display of motor vehicles on disused industrial land in Newtongrange. Councillors accepted the justification put forward by Pearson Planning, Chartered Surveyors that there would be no impacts on amenity or the road network. Officers had been against the development stating it would prejudice redevelopment of a larger site for housing. Landlord, DM Construction, has two parties willing to lease the site, thus creating new employment for 2 staff for at least 5 years.

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Edinburgh, 12 November, and Ivan McKee MSP announced to the national assembly that work on introducing a Community Infrstructure Levy in Scotland is “stopped”. Ivan ‘the terrible’ McKee recognised that the Levy was not welcome. There is a general acceptance, too, that much needed house building is being stalled by disproportionate obligation demands, and as Ivan says “unpredictable, costly and lengthy” planning application processes. McKee, branded ‘the terrible’ because of His handling of public finances north of the Cheviots, offers only one solution: higher planning fees! Genius! Increasing (again) authority revenues is not the solution. The vast majority of applications are determined by individual Officers (many of which have no professional qualifications) without the right of appeal. This needs to stop. SNP Government spending for 2023-2024 had a negative fiscal balance of -£22 billion. This must stop.