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The photographs in this week’s trip down West Fife’s Memory Lane look at the area to the west of Dunfermline around Pittencrieff Street, an old…

FIFES planning system has been branded "farcical" by Dunfermline campaigners. Calais Woods Conservation Group helped drum up 270 objections against plans submitted by Shepherd Offshore to create a southern access road serving new homes near the £180 million super campus site. When the developers withdrew proposals recently, the group celebrated a small victory, but are now exasperated at news that plans will be resubmitted and the campaign will need to start over again. It follows prot...

Dunfermline masterplan concerns prompt calls for communities to have more say Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A Fife community fighting to save its local woodland has called for more say over significant planning applications. Members, including the Calais Woods Conservation Group, fear an ambitious masterplan for Dunfermline could affect the ancient wood, which is home to a diverse range of wildlife includin...

TWO former MSPs are among more than 70 people objecting to proposals to build housing, a petrol station and a pub next to Dunfermline’s new £180 million super campus. Theres broad approval for the plans to build replacement high schools for St Columbas and Woodmill, as well as a new Fife College, at Shepherd Offshores land at Halbeath, on the former Hyundai/Freescale site at Dunlin Drive. But the Save the Calais Woods Wildlife group told the Press last week of their concerns that other...