Loanhead (pop. 6,900) is a town in Midlothian, Scotland, in a commuter belt to the south of Edinburgh, and close to Roslin, Bonnyrigg and Dalkeith. The town was improved coal and oil shale mining, as well as the paper sectors. Loanhead continues to grow, greatly due to the influence of the continued development of Straiton Retail Park that includes one of just two IKEA stores in Scotland, but likewise significantly as a dorm room community for Edinburgh, parts of which are under 20 mins away. Regardless of the closeness of huge stores such as Sainsbury's and also Costco, the main road, Clerk Street, is busy with web traffic and local shoppers. A big, modern industrial estate with around 100 various issues supplies a wide variety of jobs for regional residents. Organisations consist of MacSweens haggis factory, as well as Police Scotland's Communications Centre (The Force Communications Centre, or FCC) where all radio website traffic as well as emergency telephone calls are handled. The Pentlands industrial estate was opened in the 1970s, as well as a variety of retail and various other services trade from the perimeter of the community. These were from the likes of Gregg's to the a lot more industrial firms concentrating on welding as well as steel manufacture.