Chalets' Fate Uncertain as Battery Site Concerns Grow

0:00Plans for 98 holiday chalets in Dow Keith Country Park have hit a snag with mid-Lothian counselors voicing serious doubts. A pre-application notice went in recently, but the planning committee is installed on the idea just yet. This comes after bigger plans for 200 chalets fell through before. Now scaled back, it's still the same company pushing a massive battery storage site right nearby, which has everyone on edge. After calling Cassidy laid it out plain, that battery set up sits too close to a school packed with over 2,000 kids. He called it a human issue, not just planning red tape, and urged a full rethink. The battery got Scottish government approval last year, but mid-Lothian counselors fighting back with a judicial review. They're worried about its spot next to the school's campus, plus weak evacuation and fire safety plans. Officials say they'll weigh these red flags heavily if a full application drops, so the chalets fate hangs in the balance for now. That's the story for today, and in burrow news today, driven by AI, I'm Cory with the

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