Dunfermline Weekly 🌡️ 15 December 2024
New high school naming, Homebase closure, Inverkeithing works, and more
🌡️ Temperatures are going up, as you would expect in the lead up to Christmas. The upcoming week looks warmer but wetter, with forecasting models apparently split on whether Christmas will even have temperatures low enough for snow.
🎆 Fife Council will open a process for requesting firework control zones in local areas, within which it would be a criminal offence to set off fireworks. These have been used already in Glasgow and Edinburgh to some success, but the council notes that Fife has “very few complaints around the unacceptable use of fireworks”.
☢️ Radioactive material on a Dalgety Bay beach was cleaned up last year but the area continues to be monitored, and SEPA has released the first report. While there are still radioactive particles present, their levels are entirely as expected.
🏫 The new Rosyth high school will be named by the public, and the council opened a consultation on the name. The online form is open until 22 January. Quite a few options are suggested in the form, with varying level of local connection and relevance. There is also a space for new proposals.
🎾 The new Dunfermline Learning Campus community use facilities are in the spotlight in the new video from the council.
⛪ Dunfermline Abbey has published details of the upcoming Christmas events on their website, with a broad range of options for various ages.
🛠️ The Homebase store in Dunfermline is confirmed to be amongst the ones closing after the chain went into administration. It was previously reported that it was not amongst the stores bought by the owner of the Range chain, but its fate was still unclear. DW believes that staff have not been given an expected closing date and the administrators are likely to announce it with two weeks’ notice based on the pace of the ongoing clearance sale.
🏘️ Final phase of Inverkeithing’s Fraser Avenue regeneration has been approved. The project was initially approved nearly ten years ago and has resulted in replacement of nearly 240 old and poorly maintained houses in the area.
🚧 Inverkeithing centre will also see changes, with pavement and road surface upgrades, public space overhaul, and repair and move of the town’s mercat cross.
🚧 Major roadworks are coming to Halbeath roundabout in the new year. Expect significant lane restrictions and partial closures until March.