Plans for a huge new housing estate on the edge of Edinburgh have been thrown out by the Scottish Government as it was argued its residents would be too 'car dependant'.
Last June Edinburgh City Council refused an application submitted by George Street-based developers JS & R Mitchell for 350 houses, health and community facilities and allotments on green belt land north of Balerno.
Planning officers said the proposed development - which attracted almost 1,000 objections from local residents - was 'not considered to be sustainable', and that people living in the suburb would be 'heavily reliant upon car usage as the primary mode of transport'.
