Site of new £90m Fife College campus targeted by vandals three times since Saturday

Damage has been caused to the property at Dunlin Drive, the preferred site for the new £90 million campus for Fife College.

There's already building work going on at the mixed use site, with Persimmon Homes and Bellway Homes erecting 225 homes, which also has areas for employment and education. 

A Police Scotland spokesman said: "Police in Dunfermline have received three reports of youths entering and then causing damage within the grounds of a former business premises in Dunlin Drive.

"The incidents took place during the evenings of the 1st, 3rd and 4th April and inquiries are ongoing to trace those responsible."

An anonymous source told the Press he believes the damage the youths have caused is worth thousands of pounds, saying they had smashed internal and external windows, ripped down ceilings and knocked down light fittings.

"I do know that they got in through a boarded up window by breaking it at the rear end close to the woods," he said.

The new Fife College campus at Dunlin Drive should be ready to welcome 6,000 students in the summer of 2019, although a planning application has not yet been submitted.

A number of disused sites have been vandalised in Dunfermline with old buildings at South Fod Farm twice set on fire and teenagers blamed for a break-in at the derelict Duracord factory in January.

In that incident, a fire extinguisher was thrown out of the window, narrowly missing passers-by on the busy Pilmuir Street below.