A SPORTS performance coaching business has been given the green light to set up home at East Fortune.

Sandy Pate’s plans for the building, near East Fortune Airfield, were revealed earlier this year.

East Lothian Council’s planning department approved the scheme after there were no objections from members of the public.

A supporting statement included with the application highlighted what was being proposed for the site.

It read: “The plan is to use the building for one-to-one sports performance coaching, having clients in receiving a private gym session one at a time (sometimes two clients as both coaches would be working out of the unit).

“Clients would just come for the hour session and leave again.

“No one would have access to train in the facility unless the coaches were on site.”

The planning officer’s report stressed that there were no plans for alterations to the outside of the existing agricultural building.

Instead, one third of the premises would be partitioned off for the sports performance coaching business.

The officer’s report reads: “The proposed use of part of the existing building for sports coaching would be wholly contained within the building with the majority of the building remaining in use for the storage of agricultural machinery.

“Parking to serve the proposed sports coach facility use of the building would be contained within the site and served by an existing access track.

“The proposed use of part of the building as a sports coaching facility constitutes an appropriate form of rural diversification that can be accommodated without detriment to the wider environment.”