Plans to develop almost 300 new homes at Letham Mains have been given the green light.

East Lothian Council’s Planning Committee met remotely to consider an application for 232 houses and 42 flats on part of the wider Letham Mains site.

The site had been identified for housing in the East Lothian Local Development Plan 2018 and a pre-application consultation event had been held in 2018.


Letham Mains to the north of the application site, was allocated for around 800 homes plus education and community facilities, and is already being developed. This application refers to the field to the southwest corner of that larger site. A total of 69 affordable homes will be incorporated.

Committee members agreed unanimously to approve the application but with the added condition that no vehicular access would be allowed from the unclassified road at Letham Mains holdings.