A bid to build new houses on a housing estate's 'green lung' has been thrown out after Midlothian councillors ruled they had "eked out" as many homes as they could on the land.
Miller Homes wanted to build an additional nine houses on a strip of green land between two woods on the edge of a nearly completed housing estate outside Newtongrange.
The land, at Cockpen Farm, was set aside to be used as open or green space when housing was built.
