PLANS have been tabled for a £2million extension to Carnegie Primary School to cope with new housing development on the former Hyundai site.

But despite more homes being built in the area, Fife Council said they have no plans for a fourth primary school in the Dunfermline eastern expansion.

An application has been submitted for four classrooms and ancillary accommodation at Carnegie – which was tagged the “best school in Scotland” by then First Minister Alex Salmond when it opened in 2011.

A statement from the council confirmed, “The extension is needed to provide additional capacity at Carnegie PS to support a new area of housing development on the Shepherd Offshore site.” Officers had confirmed their intentions in March and, if plans are approved, work is scheduled to start in November and be complete for the new term in August 2016.

The extension will be funded from developer contributions following the rezoning of the Shepherd Offshore site, from commercial to mixed use, which provided additional housing land. Approval would also see a reduction in parking spaces, from 46 to 44. The council previously said they had anticipated an increase in the school roll and said that Carnegie PS was “built flexibly to allow for expansion at any given time”.

It currently has a roll of 450 plus 160 nursery children.