Fife

A Fife building contractor has been fined £5,000 after a subcontractor sustained multiple fractures and a brain injury in a fall from height.

The former Viewforth High School in Kirkcaldy, which is subject to a planning application for redevelopment by Whiteburn Projects, has been destroyed in a fire over the weekend.

A closing date has been set for the sale of the former Madras College site in St Andrews, which has been recommended for use as housing. Shepherd Chartered Surveyors has set a closing date of 12 noon December 3 for the sale of Scottish comprehensive secondary school Madras College’s Kilrymont

Plans for a multi-million-pound waterfront development at the western end of the Kirkcaldy Esplanade have been rejected by Fife Council.

Fife Council has received plans to build new student accommodation in St Andrews, easing the pressure on housing stock in the university town. The revised proposals would provide 748 student beds at Albany Park, seen as the centrepiece of a £100 million investment in student accommodation over

Plans have been submitted to Fife Council to build 25 new affordable homes in Lochgelly.

A developer has successfully appealed to the Scottish Government after its plans for new homes next to Townhill Country Park in Dunfermline were rejected by the local authority.

Plans for the construction of a glass-fronted bar overlooking the Old Course in St Andrews have been submitted to Fife Council.

The first major engineering works on a state-of-the-art composite structures research facility will begin in July as part of an industry-academic partnership between the University of Edinburgh and Babcock International Group.

A Scottish regional regeneration partnership could provide a potential model for global economic recovery, according to a global think tank and strategic advisory firm.

Dairy firm Graham’s The Family Dairy has submitted plans for what it claims will be the first low carbon heat project in Scotland’s dairy industry.

A world-first programme using green hydrogen to heat homes could be built in Fife if proposals are approved by energy regulator Ofgem. 

Plans to convert a listed former Kirkcaldy library and clinic into new flats have been approved by Fife Council.

A development with a partially-formed golf course near St Andrews could be resurrected after the site was put up for sale.

Sinclair Watt Architects has resubmitted plans lodged in 2017 to demolish the former Fife Council offices in Rosyth in order to build 23 flats.