Dunfermline masterplan concerns prompt calls for communities to have more say
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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 including birds of prey and roe deer.
The group is in favour of proposals for a £180 million super-campus on the Duloch site.
It will include a new Fife College campus and a replacement for Woodmill and St Columbus high schools.
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A WILDLIFE campaign group has hit out after trees were felled from a site near where a new road is being proposed in Dunfermline. The Save the Calais Woods Wildlife group believes between 50 and 60 trees were chopped down on land near Dunlin Drive without warning last week. As reported previously in the
Press, plans have been submitted by Shepherd Offshore to create a southern access road serving new homes near the £180 million super campus site. The campaign group held a protest on March 7 to voice their objections. Basically, it substantiates what our campaign has been about from day one – developments around the woodland are going to have an effect on the woodland, he said.
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A new Woodmill High School and St Columba s RC High School are to be built at Halbeath Interchange.
New Dunfermline secondary schools on a super campus with Fife College will go up for public discussion next month.
Consultation will start after the Easter holidays on the plan to replace Woodmill High School and St Columba’s RC High Schools at Halbeath Interchange.
The learning campus at the former Shepherd Offshore site will be the first of its kind in Scotland, and parents, pupils and teachers and the wider community will be able to have their say during a series of online public meetings and drop-in sessions.
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