Fife

Planning permission for a new crematorium in Glenrothes has been approved after an appeal to the Scottish Government.

Fife Council has moved to restart construction on more than 200 new homes after work had to stop on four sites across the Kingdom last year.

Land in Thornton currently used for greyhound racing would bring larger economic benefits to Fife if the site were used for housing, an independent report by BiGGAR Economics has found.

Fife Council’s Cabinet Committee has backed plans for a new housing development on the site of the former Glenwood Centre in Glenrothes.

Plans to create a high quality, fully accessible new shared path network to connect the new rail stations at Leven and Cameron Bridge alongside the River Leven have been approved by councillors.

An £800 million deal has been agreed to create two further Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) sites in Scotland – each of which is the largest in Europe. Investment fund manager Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) will build two more storage sites in addition to the one under cons

Revised plans have been submitted for new homes to be created on an abandoned city centre site at Walmer Drive in Dunfermline.

Plans have been submitted for 360 new homes on an area of farmland in Rosyth. The Alfred Stewart Property Foundation (ASPF), a charity named after the late West Fife businessman, wants to develop just over 25 hectares at Castlandhill. A quarter of the properties would be affordable homes for social

Muir Timber Systems has delivered timber kits and roof trusses for 44 new affordable homes in Leslie, a village near Glenrothes in Fife. The properties comprise a mix of detached and semi-detached two, three and four-bedroom family houses and amenity bungalows.

Roofing apprentices from Fife College have completed the restoration of the historic roof at The Steadings in Pittencrieff Park.

Campion Homes is to build 19 new three and four-bedroom homes at Balmullo, near St Andrews.

Fife Council is progressing with an agreement with Robertson Partnership Homes that will see the council deliver a total of 63 new council houses at the former primary school site at Langside Crescent in Kennoway.

Robertson Timer Engineering (RTE) reached a significant milestone on its work for a Lovell Homes development in South Queensferry this week when the 200th fabricated timber frame was craned into place.

A range of improvement works have started in Inverkeithing town centre.

Energy distribution company SGN has reached a key milestone on its H100 Fife project, with the completion of the construction of the world’s first domestic hydrogen gas network in Levenmouth. Green hydrogen gas, created using renewable electricity from a local 7MW offshore wind turbine, will f