Loanhead (pop. 6,900) is a small town in Midlothian, Scotland, in a commuter belt to the south of Edinburgh, as well as near to Roslin, Bonnyrigg as well as Dalkeith. The community was improved coal and also oil shale mining, as well as the paper sectors. Loanhead remains to expand, mainly due to the influence of the continued development of Straiton Retail Park that includes one of only two IKEA stores in Scotland, but additionally increasingly as a dorm room community for Edinburgh, parts of which are under 20 mins away. Regardless of the closeness of large shops such as Sainsbury's as well as Costco, the major road, Clerk Street, is hectic with website traffic and also neighborhood customers. A huge, modern industrial estate with around 100 various issues gives a wide variety of tasks for regional residents. Organisations consist of MacSweens haggis manufacturing facility, as well as Authorities Scotland's Communications Centre (The Force Communications Centre, or FCC) where all radio web traffic and also emergency telephone calls are managed. The Pentlands industrial estate was opened in the 1970s, and also a variety of retail as well as various other businesses trade from the periphery of the town. These were from the similarity Gregg's to the more industrial companies focusing on welding and also steel construction.