WOULD you like an amusement park built in the Glen or a viewing tower looking out over Dunfermline where you can get a bite to eat?

Maybe you fancy boating on a lake in Public Park, taking a tram to our very own 'Ashton Lane' or staying dry under a glass roof while you shop on High Street.

These are just some of the many ideas for Design Dunfermline, a £450,000 community project that wants your suggestions on how to 'fix' the town centre.

West Fifers let their imaginations run wild in an informal consultation last October but now it's time to agree on at least one idea to take forward and improve the area.

Design Dunfermline takes place in City Chambers and Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries and begins tomorrow. 

Locals can also have their say on Thursday, Friday and Sunday, with at least one project progressing to a business plan and fundraising strategy.

Sam Foster, the local architect guiding the design process, said: "Town centres face massive challenges in the current climate.

"There is a recognition that cash-strapped councils on their own can't ‘fix' town centres.

"As a community we need and want to take responsibility for our town – this is local democracy in action and Fife Council is very keen to support this way of working.

"Nationwide organisations like the Scottish Community Alliance are campaigning for bottom-up decision making by communities across the country."

Design Dunfermline is the launch event that will help inform a three year heritage programme.

It has more than £300,000 of lottery money and cash from the Scottish Government while Fife Council, Fife Cultural Trust, Dunfermline Carnegie Trust and Dunfermline Delivers have boosted the total to just over £444,000.

At the informal event last year, more than 150 people came up with suggestions and complaints about housing, heritage, shopping, green spaces, anti-social behaviour, the public realm and transport.

The four-day event this week is an intensive 'charrette' process to create a design-led vision for the town centre, while also looking at how Dunfermline's heritage can be used to aid growth, attract visitors and better serve the community.

Locals will be asked to suggest and consider a number of projects on how to regenerate the town centre.

Fife Station Creative is an outstanding example of just how successful a community project can be and Sam said: "We've seen these charrettes lead to local community groups leveraging funding from national funds, and the private sector to progress capital projects."

He added: "When these community projects are successful, they galvanise more participation.

"In Rotterdam, the city has witnessed community participation progress from one campaign to save local libraries in 2011 to an estimated 1,300 civic projects today."