Marie Sharp

1 week ago | msn.com | Marie Sharp

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1 week ago | edinburghlive.co.uk | Marie Sharp

A garden nursery has been given a boost in its bid to reduce its dependence on the National Grid by up to 60% with its own solar panels. Smeaton Nursery and Tearoom, at East Linton, in East Lothian, has been granted planning permission to install more than 300 panels in an old section of its walled garden area to increase its independence.

1 week ago | edinburghlive.co.uk | Marie Sharp

A former caretaker's flat in a Midlothian community football club's building is to be turned into a dog parlour. The Tartan Pooch Parlour has been given permission to open on the first floor of the Bonnyrigg Rose Community Centre building which is also home to facilities for the adjacent community pitch. An application for a change of use from the football club use to the grooming business said the first floor which had previously been used as a residence has lain empty for five years.

2 weeks ago | edinburghlive.co.uk | Marie Sharp

A private hospital has been given the go ahead to build a new eight-bed ward on its west wing to support inpatient demand. The Spire Shawfair Hospital, at Shawfair Park, in Midlothian, plans to create the new extension on land currently used as a service yard with eight individual bedrooms with ensuite facilities. The new modular ward, which includes a plant room, will be linked to the existing main building with a new link corridor.

2 weeks ago | edinburghlive.co.uk | Marie Sharp

A fresh bid to build new homes next to a former mill lade on a slope in Penicuik has been rejected by planners. Craig Meikle applied for permission to build three split level homes on land at Craigbank Road, Penicuik, two years after Midlothian Council rejected a similar proposal over safety concerns. But despite reducing the number of houses involved and addressing concerns about access to the mill lade with plans to fill it in, planners ruled it was not acceptable.