Fife Council

Lesley Laird A vote by Scotland’s local authorities to reject the package of measures put forward for Scottish local government takes relationships to a new low, according to Fife Council.

Back row, left to right: Gregor Adams – Robertson homes, Assistant Site Manager Paul Donaldson – Robertson Homes, Site Manager David Raynor – resident Danielle Raynor – resident (child) Marta Raynor – resident Tim Rhodes – Robertson Homes, Senior Project Manager Derrick Cully – Roberts

Lesley Laird Fife Council has written to the Scottish Government to call for a change to the Scottish planning system which it believes will empower communities as well as manage the development industry’s aspirations.

Judy Hamilton Fife Council has pledged to end the practice of using bed and breakfast accommodation for homeless people by March.

Kingdom Housing Association has enlisted the help of local school children to help raise awareness of its major £26 million regeneration project in Inverkeithing. Working alongside Fife Council, the Association is to demolish 236 properties on Fraser Avenue and replace them with 189 new energy effi

Rent levels for Fife Council tenants could go up by 2.5 per cent from April to allow properties to be improved, the local authority has said. No final decision has yet been taken but councillors on the region’s executive committee have proposed the increase as the preferred option to be put forwar

Lesley Laird A recent decision by a Scottish Government Reporter to allow 295 houses on a greenfield site in Inverkeithing has questioned the robustness of the current Scottish planning system, according to Cllr Lesley Laird, Fife Council’s depute leader and spokesperson for economy and planning.

Plans to build 49 affordable homes in Cupar have been postponed until at least 2017. The proposal by Thomson Homes in conjunction with Fife Council was planned for parkland adjacent to Tarvit Ponds.

Animal welfare specialists in Dunfermline would receive a major financial boost if a new housing project on a former wildlife rescue centre is given the go-ahead, according to developers behind the plans. CALA Homes said the Scottish SPCA, which retains its headquarters in the Fife town, would be on

Lesley Laird A Fife Council-led survey has revealed wide-spread support for an overhaul of the Scottish planning system to aid development planning and future housing delivery among local people, communities and businesses.

Following extensive consultation with the local community, Fife Council and Kingdom Housing Association are delighted to confirm the first planning application has been submitted by 7N Architects for the Fraser Avenue/Gray Place regeneration project in Inverkeithing on 13th November. The application

Pictured (l-r): Cllr Fay Sinclair, Cllr Brian Goodall, Cllr Helen Law (Chair of the City of Dunfermline Area Committee), John Mills (Fife Council’s Head of Housing), Cllr Judy Hamilton (Executive Spokesperson for Housing & Building Services), Stephen Cairns (Kingdom Housing Groups Head of Hous

Sandy Adam A housebuilder has registered its dissatisfaction with the planning service at Fife Council following the rejection of a housing development in Dalgety Bay.

Preliminary plans have been unveiled to expand a Fife village by 900 new homes. I&H Brown wants to build the major housing development to the south-west of Kelty and east of the M90.

(from left) Stewart Shearer (managing director of Robertson Partnership Homes), Cllr Judy Hamilton (executive spokesperson for housing & building services) and Cllr David Ross (council leader) Hot on the heels of building work beginning on 101 new homes in Methil, the affordable housing programm