A £2 MILLION project to improve the Lyne Burn corridor in Dunfermline faces a shortfall after a bid for cash was declined at the last minute . Nature Scot s decision to withdraw funding leaves Fife Council having to find £500,000 in their capital plan to ensure the long-awaited greenspace proposals go ahead. Councillor Helen Law, convener of the City of Dunfermline area committee, said: This is a really exciting project for Dunfermline and builds on work which has been ongoing for many years. The most recent proposals seemed in jeopardy as Fife Council s application for funding for £650,000 to Nature Scot was declined at the last minute.
ENFORCEMENT action is set to be taken after Fife Council refused a retrospective planning application for a fence at a Halbeath industrial yard. Permission had been sought to erect a boundary fence and change the use of open space operated by Gray and Adams which is based on the Lyneburn Industrial Estate. The work has already been carried out and agents for the firm said they had been unaware that planning permission was required. However their application was turned down by the council s planning department this week as it said insufficient information about any potential flood risk had been provided.