A £4MILLION plan which includes a new Aldi supermarket and pub/restaurant for Dalgety Bay has been lodged with Fife Council.

The Scarborough Muir Group say the proposals for their site in Donibristle Industrial Estate are supported by locals and will create up to 100 jobs.

They also want to build a ‘drive-thru’ coffee shop, brand new premises for two existing tenants and parking for 238 cars.

SMG’s William McAlister said, “We were delighted with the high level of interest shown in our proposals and particularly the widespread support from the Dalgety Bay community which welcomed our plans to retain the valuable existing businesses as well as the prospect of bringing a brand new Aldi store and Marston’s restaurant with licensed bar to the site.

“These proposals will not only benefit the wider Dalgety Bay community but specifically provide new facilities to the existing and new businesses within Donibristle and Hillend industrial estates.

“We also appreciate the interest shown by the community council, particularly in how we can work together to create a gateway entrance for Dalgety Bay.” SMG want to flatten the existing buildings on their land at Ridge Way and provide purpose-built premises for current tenants, the popular indoor kids play centre, the Play Planet, and York EMC Services. They also want to build a “small supermarket” for Aldi, a restaurant with licensed pub for Marston Inns and Taverns and a new ‘drive-thru’ coffee shop/restaurant, as well as create 238 car parking spaces and add in landscape improvements.

The company, which also owns the Rosyth waterfront site, held an event in May for interested locals to view and comment on the proposals.

SMG said 92 per cent of the community who gave their views were in favour and they have now submitted a planning application to Fife Council.

A decision is expected early next year.

SMG has owned the 2.13 hectare site since 2007 and said the existing buildings, built in the 1950s, have “come to the end of their useable life”.

They added that “the industrial estate is in much need of ancillary uses to support the existing occupiers and attract new businesses to the area”. The council is hoping to breathe new life into Hillend and Donibristle industrial estates and has drawn up an action plan.

They admitted that areas of the estates are obsolete, vacant and derelict and, as well as SMG’s plans, two developers want to build more than 100 homes at two separate sites.

But the council wants to maintain the former airfield for employment use and pointed out that seven of the top 100 businesses in Fife, as well as 120 firms and more than 2000 employees, are based there.

They hope that new signs, branding, landscape and maintenance improvements, as well as a running track, an orchard and allotments, will make the area more attractive to firms.

A Business Improvement District is also under consideration.