A luxury furniture firm's bid to expand its Midlothian industrial estate site has been rejected by planners over the proposed loss of mature trees.
Midlothian Council's planners rejected the application from local employer Charlotte James Furniture to build a storage warehouse next to their workshop and showroom in the Pentland Industrial Estate, Loanhead.
They said the new warehouse, which would be built at the edge of the estate, would be 'very prominent' and detract from the 'character and appearance of the surrounding area'.
