The owner of a cottage in a conservation village has lost her appeal to keep new windows which open the 'wrong way' after they were branded "pretty ugly" by one councillor.
Avril Herron had applied for retrospective planning permission for the new windows installed in the front of her cottage, on Pathhead High Street.
However Midlothian planners turned down the application pointing out the way the new windows opened outwards instead of following the up and down of a traditional timber and sash window, which they said had a significant adverse effect on the conservation area.
