For details of planning applications and on-line plans to view, go to FifeDirect.
You can view all details including the plans themselves. The community council
is a statutory consultee for applications and considers these at its meetings.
Please note that, as a sitting Councillor, I offer no opinion on any planning application
prior to it being considered at committee - available information is presented to
keep you informed.
Ron Edwards
Revised plans for the Cemetery Viewpoint.
The Community Council planning application for the Cemetery Steps Viewpoint at Inch
View can be viewed on e-planning as 10/000985/FULL.
Originally Fife Council Transportation encouraged the Community Council to bring
the pathway into the viewpoint from the south by breaching the barrier. They have
changed their mind and now insist that the barrier should not be altered. As a consequence
of this, fresh plans have been lodged with this disabled-accessible path coming in
from the corner and using a “dog-leg” to maintain a suitable gradient. This still
gives good views and a suitable path but will delay the application.
Unfortunately, the planning application is held up further because of Fife Council
investigations on the stability of the rock face along the back of Pettycur Bay,
even though the application site is some 11 metres back from the cliff edge.
Invertiel Development.
It has certainly been a long haul. Because the application for a Morrisons Supermarket
at Invertiel was contrary to the Mid Fife Local Plan, the Planners recommendation
was for refusal and the Kirkcaldy Area Committee recommended approval the application
went through a hearing at which well over a hundred residents made impassioned appeals
for approval, and then to Planning Committee. The Planning Committee recommended
acceptance and eventually, at Fife Council meeting of 30th June, permission was granted
by 36 votes to 18. The decision still has to be approved by the Scottish Government,
but then the detail can be thrashed out and the building can commence. It has been
a wonderful exercise in democracy and all, supporters and objectors, have made a
great contribution to the process. Hopefully now this will encourage the Hovercraft
proposal to proceed and the general regeneration of this area to take place.
