Scottish Ministers are being asked to overturn a decision to reject a £22.4 million plan to build a care home and affordable housing on ‘disused’ land which developers claimed would create hundreds of jobs in Midlothian.
The proposal by Pentland Park Marine Ltd for land next to Straiton retail park was thrown out by councillors at a meeting in August after planners said two-thirds of the site was on designated countryside.
Developers, however, argued the land was 'fallow' and had lain unused for 50 years.
