Fife Council

Development underway at Bute Cresent Fife Council’s Affordable Housing Programme is helping to provide more much needed council homes in the Abbeyview area of Dunfermline.

Robertson Homes "House In A Day" on site at Methilbrae Site in Methil, Fife. Left to Right - Alan Russell, Stewart Shearer, John Mills and Alistair Black Construction of a new affordable housing development in Fife has reached the halfway stage.

A housing development in Strathkinness has been recommended for approval by Fife planning officials but only if it is reduced in size. Stirling-based Avant Homes have applied for planning permission in principle to build 76 houses at Nydie Mains Road.

Work is entering the final stages on Fife Council’s new housing development at Blairadam Fields in Kelty. Cllr Judy Hamilton, executive spokesperson for housing & building services, visited the development recently where 58 properties are being built by Persimmon Homes for the council.

Councillor Tim Brett Empty properties owned by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in Fife should be released to help tackle the region’s housing crisis, according to a local councillor.

The independent review which proposed a package of measures to change Scotland’s planning system has been welcomed by Fife Council. The local authority has long called for an overhaul of the system to enable communities to have a greater say and provide a more effective system and yesterday it sai

Cllr Judy Hamilton with Louise Sutherland (Fife Council service manager for area housing operations) and David Leaf (land manager, Bellway Homes Scotland) Work is progressing well on another phase of council housing at Leuchatsbeath in Cowdenbeath.

Nicki Donaldson (front right) and Cara Hilton (front left) at the launch with representatives from Persimmon Homes, Fife Council and Abbeyview tenants Fife Housing Group and its partners joined tenants, local councillors and current Labour candidate Cara Hilton this week, to celebrate the completion

Proposals for 100 new homes in Leven, ten of which would be classed as affordable, have been approved by Fife councillors. Campion Homes wants to extend the town’s north-eastern boundary with the development planned for land off Cupar Road.

The planning moratorium on new Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) in St Andrews town centre will continue until June 2017 because Fife Council officers have still not fully assessed its impact. Student newspaper The Saint reports that the HMO ban was first introduced in 2011, with a review expected

Judy Hamilton Over £225 million is to be invested in Fife’s council homes over the next three years to ensure the local authority continues to reach the Scottish Housing Quality Standard (SHQS).

New tenant Carolynn McQueen with Max Scotto, Kingdom’s tenant participation officer The Fife community of Guardbridge is celebrating more good news with the completion by Kingdom Housing Association of its latest new housing development delivering 66 new homes to the village.

Cllrs Judy Hamilton & David Ross visit tenant Maria McKenzie The completion of a housing development in Thornton has signalled the halfway stage in Fife Council’s Affordable Housing Programme.

(from left) Spence Waddell, clerk of works for Fife Council; Robert Herd, construction manager for Muir Homes; Alan Russell, senior manager for housing condition & supply at Fife Council; Cllr Judy Hamilton, Fife Council’s executive spokesperson for housing & building services; Alastair Wh

Residents are being invited to attend a drop-in event today discussing a new affordable housing development in Fife. Plans by Persimmon Homes include developing 49 affordable homes at Bute Crescent in Dunfermline.