OFFICIAL consultation on the latest proposals to change catchment areas in West Fife begins today (Thursday).

Four public meetings and drop-in sessions are being held to allow affected parents to find out more and have their say.

Last month, members of Fife Council’s education and children’s services committee voted unanimously to take the plans – which would see the re-zoning of Kings Road and Camdean primaries to Inverkeithing High School – to statutory consultation.

The fresh proposals, which are aimed at addressing looming capacity issues at Woodmill High, came to the table after a previous option to send Masterton Primary pupils to Inverkeithing was thrown out by councillors in October.

They will see catchment areas altered for Woodmill, Dunfermline, Inverkeithing and Queen Anne high schools.

Under the revamped plans, addresses in the Camdean and Kings Road primary schools catchment would be re-zoned from Dunfermline High to Inverkeithing while addresses within the Torryburn Primary and Tulliallan Primary zones would go to Queen Anne High instead of Inverkeithing High.

Addresses in the Masterton and Limekilns primary catchments would be re-zoned from Woodmill to Dunfermline High while the addresses currently in the Woodmill catchments of Canmore, Pitreavie and Commercial primaries would also change to Dunfermline High.

Commercial Primary addresses currently within the Queen Anne catchment would also change to Dunfermline High.

The first public meeting will take place this evening (Thursday) at Dunfermline High while others take place at Woodmill High on Monday, Queen Anne High on Tuesday and Inverkeithing High on May 23. All will begin at 6pm and end at 7.30pm and education officials will give a presentation, answer questions and record any feedback.

Informal drop-in events will take place before each meeting from 5- 6pm when officers will be able to give further information on the proposal, answer questions and provide Consultation Response Forms.

As reported previously in the Press, the plans have provoked anger from many families in Rosyth who believe their children are being ignored in favour of youngsters from Dunfermline's Eastern Expansion.

One parent, Kat Cook, was furious and said she believed their children were losing out.

“I went to Dunfermline High – generations and generations went to Dunfermline High from Rosyth schools," she said. "Now our children have been forgotten about and pushed out because children from a new school need a high school. Why should our children be put out to make way for a new community?"

If the changes are approved, re-zoning would take place from August 2019. A full copy of the proposals can be found at www.fifedirect.org.uk/dunfermlinecatchmentreview.