Supermarket chain Farmfoods is hoping its community support work during the pandemic will help it get approval for a new MIdlothian store.
The retailer has lodged a planning application to build on a former car showroom Edinburgh Road, saying it could create up to 20 jobs.
The site, across the road from a Tesco supermarket, was rejected as a retail space last year after planners ruled it could take customers away from town centre shops.