Skip to content
PlanIndex Get alerts
Menu

Planning application

Yards 27, 28 and 29 Clippens Industrial Yards Straiton Road Loanhead

Awaiting decision Midlothian 25/00614/DPP Detailed Planning Permission

Still open. Anyone can comment while the consultation period runs, and comments go to the council rather than to us.

Proposal

Change of use from Vacant Industrial Storage Yards (Class 6) to a Second-Hand Car Dealership (Sui Generis)

As published by the council, reference 25/00614/DPP

Application record

Reference
25/00614/DPP
Type
Detailed Planning Permission
Status
Awaiting decision
Received
19 Nov 2025
Validated
19 Nov 2025
Ward
Midlothian West
Parish
Damhead Community Council

Timeline

Dates from the published record

  1. 19 Nov 2025

    Received by Midlothian

  2. 27 Jul 2026

    Added to PlanIndex

  3. Decision

    Awaiting decision

    Decision expected by 14 January 2026, 8 weeks from validation under the statutory target for most applications. Extensions of time are common and are agreed case by case.

    Midlothian took a median of 59 days over the applications it decided in the last year.

Who's behind it

Company information only, from the register and Companies House

Christopher Thomson Design Agent, a design practice

1 application on PlanIndex

Trade members see everything this firm has filed, how it was decided, and get an email the day it files again.

See their track record

Documents

Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report

6 documents on file for this application

A planning file usually holds the application form, drawings and site plans, consultee responses, the officer's report and the decision notice.

Watch members (£5 a month) open the document list from here.

Open the documents

What happens while it is decided

This application is with Midlothian for determination, against a statutory target of eight weeks. Over the last year Midlothian decided full applications in a median of 67 days. More in our guide to how long planning decisions take.

About full applications

A full application seeks permission for a complete, detailed proposal in one go, with siting, design, access and landscaping all fixed at this stage. More in our guide to planning application types.

Nearby applications

Within 0.3 miles

  • Land At 104 Straiton Road Loanhead

    21/00333/PPP Submitted 26 Apr 2021 300 yards away

    Application for planning permission in principle for erection of dwellinghouse

    Granted Outline 24 docs
    Domestic

  • Ikea Costkea Way Loanhead EH20 9BY

    26/00109/DPP Submitted 27 Feb 2026 400 yards away

    Erection of screen fencing and plant equipment including installation of air source heat pumps; replacement of air handling units and associated works

    Granted Full applications 26 docs

  • 16 Straiton Mains Loanhead EH20 9PW

    21/00696/ADV Submitted 20 Aug 2021 0.3 miles away

    Display of illuminated and non-illuminated signage

    Granted Advertising 16 docs

  • 12 Burnbank Grove Loanhead EH20 9NX

    24/00138/DPP Submitted 27 Feb 2024 0.3 miles away

    Extension to dwellinghouse (part retrospective)

    Granted Full applications Extension 24 docs
    Domestic

  • The Peel Centre Straiton Road Loanhead

    23/00822/LA Submitted 19 Dec 2023 0.3 miles away

    Application to discharge a planning obligation within a legal agreement associated with planning permission 05/00127/FUL

    Decided Amendments 9 docs

  • Aldi Foodstore Ltd Pentland Road Loanhead EH20 9FR

    25/00408/DPP Submitted 29 Jul 2025 0.3 miles away

    Installation of 2 no. external parcel lockers and CCTV (retrospective)

    Granted Full applications 15 docs

In Midlothian

  • 26/00260/DPP Granted

    29 Main Street Pathhead EH37 5PZ

    Erection of garage and workshop

    Received 4 May, published by the council 27 Jul 2026 Full applications
  • 26/00457/DPP Granted

    35 Whitehouse Way Gorebridge EH23 4FP

    Erection of outbuilding (Retrospective)

    Received 24 Aug, published by the council 2 Sep 2026 Full applications
  • 26/00380/DPP Granted

    St Margarets 23 Lauder Road Dalkeith EH22 2JY

    Formation of driveway and access to classified road

    Received 13 Jul, published by the council 27 Jul 2026 Full applications
  • 26/00417/DPP Granted

    19 Croft Street Dalkeith EH22 3BA

    Extension to flatted dwelling

    Received 4 Aug, published by the council 11 Aug 2026 Full applications
  • 26/00439/DPP Granted

    5 Robert Smith Place Dalkeith EH22 1JF

    Installation of replacement conservatory roof

    Received 14 Aug, published by the council 16 Aug 2026 Full applications