A candle supplier has been refused the go ahead for a sign above a shop in Dalkeith High Street after its aluminium base was branded "unworthy" of the town centre.
Mr Melts applied for permission to install the two metre wide white sign above the door of a former opticians in a Listed Building on the street.
However Midlothian planners said the proposal did not reflect the traditional features of the area's shop fronts and demanded a more traditional approach.
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Refusing Listed Building Consent for the new sign, planners said the use of an aluminium board "would not respect the historic character and appearance of the shopfront".
And the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland criticised the sign.
They told planners: "These are very temporary and ill-designed signage material unworthy of a conservation area."
The site for the shop is part of a C listed building in the Dalkeith House and Park Conservation Area and has been involved in a scheme improving shopfronts in the town centre in recent years.
The report on the application said: "The planning authority expect new signage to be of traditional materials appropriate to this historic building at a prominent location in Dalkeith Town Centre, such as timber fascia or hand painted signs, or potentially individual lettering or an appropriate material, as existing.
"The proposed design, position and materials of the proposed signage would not respect the historic character and appearance of the shopfront and would detract from the character, appearance and historic interest of the site, as well as the significant improvements made to the building to date."
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