Tag: Environment
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Comment: The Road to Disaster
Midlothian Council are to progress with their ill fated plans to create the A701 bypass. Our editor argues that even before it has left the drawing ... -
Community to Have Say on Regeneration Plans
The public will be given their chance to influence Penicuik’s upcoming Heritage Regeneration scheme, says Midlothian Council. Midlothian Council last week appointed design consultants Douglas Wheeler ... -
All Welcome at Community Litter Picks
The community are invited to help clean up Penicuik. As the summer nears and the trees spring back into life, the time has come to get ... -
Go Ahead for Straiton Film Studios
Two years and seven months after developers first submitted plans for a film studio complex in Midlothian, the Scottish Government has finally issued a decision. Had ... -
Comment: The Right Decision Much Too Late
Why did it take 137 weeks to reach a decision that should have been made in 16? There is much you can do in nearly three ... -
This Isn’t About the Greenbelt
Development in Midlothian is coming, it is inevitable, the question we have to ask ourselves is: do we seize on the unfamiliar or welcome the uninspiring? ... -
Film Studio Plans Back on Consultation
The Scottish Government has reopened the consultation into plans for Scotland’s first purpose built film studio at Straiton, Midlothian, but time is running out before Ministers ... -
Roundabout Works to Continue Into 2017
Scottish Water has said that preliminary roadworks, to accommodate for the construction of a new roundabout on the A702 in north west Penicuik, will now continue ... -
Conservation Regeneration Funding Sought
Councillors are hoping that Penicuik could follow Dalkeith and Gorebridge in being awarded funds from Historic Scotland to improve historical buildings. At a full council meeting on ... -
Developers Promise £12M for Community
A legal agreement signed by Taylor Wimpey and Midlothian Council has revealed how homebuilders will plough £12m into the town to upgrade infrastructure and facilities. On ...