CONTROVERSIAL plans to build a renewable energy plant in East Lothian's countryside have been rejected.

The proposals for an anaerobic digester plant, at Standalane, near Ballencrieff, were described as the "right plans in the wrong place".

Nearly 200 people attended a meeting of East Lothian Council's planning committee in Haddington's Corn Exchange today to hear the arguments for and against the plans.

But the committee voted by ten votes to six to reject the plan, despite recommendations from their officials to give it the green light.

Council leader Willie Innes said: "I think it is something that would be of benefit to East Lothian. It is the right thing but in the wrong place".