Fife

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).

An example of a home planned at Heathfields Persimmon Homes North Scotland has started construction on a £30 million housing scheme in Muirhead and an £18m residential development in Dunfermline.

Robertson Homes managing director John Murphy shows Cllr Lesley Laird, Fife Council’s deputy leader, around the new Business Hub Robertson Homes has started work on a £1.5 million office project to convert a former student lodge into a business hub in the heart of St Andrews.

The Shepherd Offshore site on Dunlin Drive Fife College has secured the option to purchase land to build a new £90 million campus on the Shepherd Offshore site in Dunfermline.

Social Justice Secretary Alex Neil with Phil Caroe, Allia's director of social finance; Colin Connell, development director at Persimmons Partnerships; Jim Whiston, director of Ayrshire Housing Association, Nick Pollard, Kingdom Housing Association director of finance; Sandy Dennison, finance manage

The University of St Andrews is to sanction investment of over £70 million in student housing in a move which will provide 900 additional bed spaces and refurbish large areas of its existing residences. In an outline Accommodation Action Plan published this week, the University confirmed it is to m

Environmental consultancy Atmos Consulting has been appointed to provide planning consultancy services to support plans for a £70 million biomass generating plant in Glenrothes. Being brought forward by sustainable energy developers Sainc Energy Limited, the 19.8 MWe plant will generate enough wast

Lesley Laird Fife Council is once again squaring up for another battle against a planning appeals system that it says is “undermining local democracy”.

Lesley Laird Fife Council is calling for clarity on planning policy around fracking in Scotland after concerns were raised over proposals to remove councils from the decision-making process.

Contractors are due to begin developing a new biomass pipeline in Fife.

A ground breaking ceremony has been held by BAM Construction at the site of the new Waid Academy and community hub in Anstruther, Fife. Work at the new building is already underway which will, innovatively, incorporate community services within the ground floor of the building and the school will be

Work has started on what will become Scotland’s largest and most energy efficient data centre development in Fife. Contractors moved onto site this week to begin demolishing parts of the former Tullis Russell paper mill in Glenrothes in preparation for the construction of a state-of-the-art Queens

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.

(left to right) Back Row: Scott Lindsay, Corran McIntosh, Josh Martin, Lynne Dunn, Kyle Thomson, Roger Gardiner, Connor Webster and Martin Mentiplay. Front Row: Logan Richardson, Scott Cape, Kyle Matthews, Brendan Urquhart Ten unemployed Fife youngsters have begun careers in the construction industr

Natural resources investing company Cluff Natural Resources (CNR) is to pull funding from a project to build the UK's first deep offshore underground coal gasification (UCG) plant in Fife. Plans for the UCG facility at Kincardine were put on hold last year after the Scottish Government imposed a mor