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PLANS for a new £180 million super campus at Halbeath should be approved despite concerns over how it might affect the wider area, Fife Council officers have said. They ve recommended the green light for Shepherd Offshore s proposals, which would see a new Fife College and replacement high schools for St Columba s and Woodmill built on the former Hyundai site by 2024. The application for planning permission in principle for a mixed use development also includes a nursery, a 90-bed care home, 17 assisted living apartments, a pub/restaurant, coffee shop drive-thru, 16-pump petrol station and 225 homes. The proposals are being led by the council, Fife College and landowner Shepherd Offshore but have not been without controversy.
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. There s broad approval for the plans to build replacement high schools for St Columba s and Woodmill, as well as a new Fife College, at Shepherd Offshore s 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 proposed developments could lead to environment and ecological damage, more traffic, road safety problems and a rise in littering, pollution, vandalism and flooding.