THERE will be a temporary road closure this weekend to allow overnight maintenance work to be carried out at the level crossing at Halbeath. Kingseat Road, between Hillview Court and the Pleasance roundabout, will shut from 11pm on Saturday until 6am on Sunday morning. Network Rail will be carrying out work to improve the drainage at the level crossing and elsewhere on the section of track. A spokesperson said: “We understand the inconvenience this will cause to some residents but access to the crossing is vital for our engineers as they work to complete a range of maintenance projects on the line.”
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PLANNING permission for the long-awaited new Lidl store and Marks and Spencer Foodhall in Dunfermline has been extended for another year. The addition of nine new shop units at Halbeath Retail Park, a development that promises to bring 200 jobs, was given consent by Fife Council in August 2017. Work has yet to start but the owners, Royal London Mutual Insurance Society, have been given more time. Planning consent normally runs for three years and last year, due to the pandemic, it was extended to April 7, 2021, with a council spokesperson confirming this week it s now been extended again until March 31, 2022. Dunfermline councillor Ian Ferguson said: There was a big fight when this originally happened about how much money the developer was going to have to pay for roads etc.
The environmental assessment (EA) process for the third and final proposed road project in northern Ontario that will connect remote Matawa First Nations to the provincial highway network and create a road to the proposed Ring of Fire mineral development is now underway.