Claims building a house in the style of a barn would link it to the history of the land it was being built on were branded 'rubbish' by an objector whose family farmed the land for generations.
Applicant Darryll Wilson from Whitehill Farm, outside Dalkeith, Midlothian, already had planning permission to build a house on a corner of the land.
But he submitted an amended design which turned the original one and a half storey house into a barn-style two storey home with corrugated steel roofing and a similar style garage.
