The creation of a health centre will not take into consideration the health of the soils on the site. NPF4.

1. We had to petition the council to keep the ranger service for another year - affordability given as reason to cut them where will the funding come from for such plans. Surely not going to add it to the 30 million borrowed for the ski slope park?
2. Loanhead has become a midden of fast food wrappers from Damhead to Straiton retail park down into Loanhead
3. Loanhead was provided with a new GP surgery to allow the Mayfield build to go ahead. Pity they can’t provide the desperately required GP’s needed to accommodate the increased population.
4. Expansion at whose cost - the tax payer?
5. Loanhead’s infrastructure is struggling to accommodate the new residents from all the green/grey land which has been utilised for housing.

How about trying to meet that present needs first before sinking us further into debt and then having to raise our council tax again or cut services to pay for it. I’ve been here 25 years. There’s not much green space left, as prev. mentioned everywhere you walk is littered with fast food detritus. As it is, the roads struggle to accommodate the volume of traffic for the retail park at the weekends and holidays. The pollution generated by said traffic must be off the charts. The noise pollution from the bypass is greatly increased. There are many issues which need tackling with our hard earned council tax before we start destroying more green space for more concrete.

I agree wholeheartedly with the statements made by Sarah Marjorybanks.
I avoid going to Straiton at the weekend because the traffic is so heavy. I can hear the noise of the traffic on the bypass from my garden. We used to live in the countryside with reasonable green spaces and this had now been built up and commercialized. We have deer and foxes in our gardens because their habitat has been destroyed. Please leave us some land free of fast food outlets and commercial properties.