New school option in Rosyth plan
Siew Peng Lee • Published 23 Sep 2011 08:20
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AN AMBITIOUS multi-million pound development which could create more than 100 jobs, 250 homes, a 60-bed nursing home, up to six shops, a hotel, and possibly even a new Camdean Primary School is being planned for Rosyth.
The Kapital Foundation, the charitable arm of firm Kapital Corporation, has submitted a proposal of application notice for a site behind Camdean Primary.
On its website, Kapital Foundation outlines plans to develop a "new and exciting sustainable community" at the site, which borders the school, Admiralty Road, Brankholm Brae and Brankholm Burn.
It would include new mixed affordable homes; employment opportunities; retirement/sheltered housing; a nursing home; retail centre; community and recreational facilities; and an option to upgrade or replace Camdean Primary in a proposed partnership with Fife Council.
Kapital Foundation chair, property magnate Keith Punler - who's from Rosyth and a former Camdean pupil - expects it to be a "three- to five-year project" and hopes to be on site before the end of 2012.
On the plans, he told the Press, "There have been a number of options discussed about the school but it needs to be a partnership approach.
"It's too early to comment further on what the benefits would be specifically with regard to the school.
"It could range from to improved facilities to upgrade of the existing building but dialogue needs to be carried out further.
"There'll be short-term jobs relating to construction and long-term jobs relating to things like the nursing home, employment opportunties at the hotel and restaurants.
"We won't be creating the jobs ourselves but will be creating opportunities for employers to come into the area. Which is why we need the homes as well, for local people, and to soak up the demand from other opportunities near the site, like the former Lexmark factory and the dockyard.
"One of the over-riding concerns of the local community was to make sure there was housing available at an affordable price bracket for local residents and we've looked closely at how we can come up with solutions."
Mr Punler said discussions with the local community began 18 months ago and was "very happy" with the response and level of participation.
He added, "What that then led us to do was to prepare three optional masterplans and present them at an exhibition that we had at Rosyth church hall in early spring last year and we asked the public for their views what they'd like to see and what they'd like to be involved with.
"What we have done in the meantime is work hard on those ideas and thoughts to bring together a deliverable project which we hope could be on site before the end of next year."
He said the updated plans would be presented at a Rosyth Community Council meeting next month, with a further public exhibition in November.
He said the project was partially his way of giving something back to Rosyth and added, "It's filling a need and I'd be delighted to deliver that."
Rosyth councillor Douglas Chapman was positive about the plans, saying, "I know Kapital have been in discussions with Fife Council for some time over the use of this site.
"Some of the early concept drawings and plans that have been put forward look very exciting and I know that Keith Punler is keen to maintain a garden city.
"We will keep an open mind on it but in general I think it will provide Rosyth with a really exciting entrance to the west and we look forward to what he's got to show to the wider public.
"Certainly when he put forward ideas in the past he's said it could be an improved gateway into Rosyth and that could be a big step forward in improving the feel of the town."
Community council chair Mike Shirkie confirmed an updated presentation was scheduled for the next community council meeting on 4th October.
He said, "At the moment it'd be a bit premature to comment. Hopefully we will get a better idea at the meeting."
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NotHappyJan
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Sep 23, 08:27
Report commentBuild it and they will come........ The money would be better spent elsewhere as Rosyth is just not worth the effort!
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NEILYJ
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Sep 23, 09:06
Report commentu moaning again? whit u bohred aboot min?
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Calimero
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Sep 23, 10:20
Report commentNHJ - why so negative about Rosyth all the time? Have you been personally wronged in some way? It's just you seem to jump straight in with the negative comments any time an article on here mentions Rosyth. Not ALL of Rosyth is bad. You cant tarr the entire town with the same brush. Its like saying Dunfermline is a drug and crime ridden dump just because of Abbeyview etc... Even the nicer arears like Peasehill in Rosyth have it problems. Can you maybe just have a wee think about what you are saying before you make generalised, derogatory comments.
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trish1512
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Sep 25, 21:27
Report commenti have lived in rosyth for almost 30 years and have found nothing but good about the place im at a point in my life where i will maybe have to move and dont want to go to dunfermline or anywhere else but rosyth. rosyth is great and anyone that says its not obviously hasnt lived here. yes there is bad places everywhere depends where you are.. i would love to see more council houses rather than bought ones as we need more council properties everywhere for people who cant afford to buy homes....
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DBRosyth
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Sep 25, 21:54
Report commentThis stinks and Keith Punler stinks too! Thinking he knows whats best for Rosyth just because he went to primary school here.
He's trying to make money and use the school as a sweetner.
Good luck Keith trying to make money from affordable housing. Here's hoping you go bust!
Camdean Resident.
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ItsErnie
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Sep 26, 20:36
Report commentTypical developer ploy - spot a nice green area and bribe the council to let you cover it with cheap housing packed shoulder to shoulder. Bound to appeal to Fife council of course - they have a bit of a track record of selling off school playing fields - no matter that dozens of schoolkids play there most evenings.
Well done Keith - plenty of land all around but you need to pick Camdean Primary playing field!
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Rosythlover
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Sep 27, 12:19
Report commentNHJ I have to agree with Calimero you never have anything decent to say about Rosyth. Where did you originate - obviously in some upper class area? Leave Rosyth alone there are a lot of decent areas. I take it you want to class all of Rosyth the same as Izatt Avenue, Fraser Avenue, Touch, Abbeyview and the likes. Hands off Rosyth!!!
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NotHappyJan
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Sep 27, 22:16
Report commentLooks like the moderator agrees with you Rosythlover, however I do not. I do class Rosyth in the same arena as all the area's you mention above. There are no "nice" areas, wherever you roam in Rosyth, you take your life in your hands!
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Rosythlover
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Sep 28, 12:49
Report commentEveryone to their own opinion but all my family were born and brought up in Rosyth. Many relatives, sadly now deceased were also Rosyth born and bred. We went to Park Road, Camdean and King's Road Schools and worked in and around Rosyth as well. Many families have the same backgrounds so I feel sorry for you to have had such a shallow upbringing that berating Rosyth at every turn is a 'pleasure' to you. I'd rather stay in Rosyth than some areas of Inverkeithing or Dunfermline or even further afield Cowdenbeath, Lochgelly and Lumphinnans. But then again I'm sure that the residents of these areas feel just the same. Look forward to your venomous posts.
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Calimero
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Sep 28, 15:31
Report commentI live in Findlay Street and I have never had any problems at all. I have lovely neighbours and people and smile and say hi when you pass them in the street. Ok it used to be a bit intimidating going to Nisa/Goodnews when there are a group of youngsters hanging around outside just waiting to ask you if you can buy the ciggies or booze. But now thanks to the work of the community council and the police, the police office in Rosyth has opened again and I have witnessed a lot of "bobbies on the beat" over the last couple of weeks. Certainly on Friday night I didnt see any youths hanging around at all and all was nice and quiet. NHJ is just a bit of a snob methinks.
She should come to a Rosyth community council meeting and see what the real people of Rosyth are like and the great community here. Just think of what we would miss if Rosyth was as Always Mumping Jan so nicely put it "bombed"...The lovely men and women who volunteer to plant all the beautiful flowers in all the big planters in Rosyth, the community support officers, the church groups, Parkgate centre and its wide variety of users (old and young, from karate to helping people with learning disabilities), all the football and rugby groups, Rosyth Castle, the Dockyard and even the history of Rosyth itself is enough to write a few novels. This place is facinating and if you took enough time to just scratch the surface and stop belittling the majority of this town who are law abiding tax payers like yourself - civil servants, nurses, midwives, engineers, shop workers, home carers... the list goes on.
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RosRes
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Sep 28, 16:20
Report commentHow dare you NHJ, what a narrow minded, twisted individual you really are! I can only assume that you feel brave hiding behind an online persona that offers you anonymity and enables you to spout your venomous tirades about people you know nothing about and asking for the town they live in to be "bombed".
You epitomise everything that is wrong with certain elements of today's society!
You have a very narrow viewpoint of the world if you think the town someone lives determines the type of person that they are. You know nothing of the background of many of Rosyth's residents. How dare you so incorrectly assume that our children are feral and that all areas of Rosyth are problem areas.
Every town and city has it's good and bad areas but having seen the tone of your posts for some time now, you will refute that. Maybe it is time you stepped away from your computer and get out into the real world. Your views are so far removed from reality, it is obvious you are a troll and think what you post is funny.
Saying it is a waste of money redeveloping an area and it would better off being destroyed is beyond reproach.
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Rosythlover
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Sep 29, 08:46
Report commentThanks Calimero and RosRes I knew I couldn't be the only one who thought NHJ was a venemous troll who knows nothing about Rosyth, its residents or its history. I too once lived in Finlay Street and the neighbours were brilliant. Nothing was too much trouble. Everyone was friendly and helpful. Also stayed in Brankholm Brae, Gill Way and Nelson Street. Thanks again people like NHJ just want to bask in their own glory of degrading places - Rosyth in particular.
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mikeintheknow
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Oct 1, 11:38
Report commentThat piece of Green belt already have permission of new houses, the developer is just trying to give something back to area. Can Camdean coup with alot of new school kids attending or will we be back to another Duloch, where the council builds a new school to fit in 3 new primary one class, as an afterthought?
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JimmyTheFluff
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Oct 1, 22:20
Report commentI don't think NHJ's for real. A good troll, maybe. I no longer live in Rosyth but I like the idea of filling in this 'gap'.
Camdean Primary, my old school, is falling apart. It needs investment. I doubt that Glencaldy cooncil either have the readies to fund the whole project, or give much of a toss, to be honest. It's in Dunfermline, after all. They seem to have an agenda whereby the Dunfermline/Rosyth area is underestimated at every given opportunity. I'm diverging now...
...Anyway, the school playing fields will not be affected as far as I'm aware. Sure it's the land just West of there, bordering Forker, Admiralty Rd and the back road to the town.
Something else I'd like to see would be development of Rosyth waterfront. Council want a container terminal, however. Anybody getting off a cruise ship at Port of Rosyth must be wondering what the hell is going on when they realise there is nothing but industry for about a mile.
Ok bye x
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NotHappyJan
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Oct 4, 02:28
Report commentRosythlover, RosRes and Calimero it appears certain individuals can say what they like without being moderated, perhaps the moderator lives in Rosyth and cannot bear to allow free speech. To plunge to the depths of name calling is venomous in itself.
How presumptuous of you all to think I know nothing about Rosyth, nothing could be further from the truth. How presumptuous to assume I know nothing about the history of Rosyth.
Just because I have an opposing view to yours does not make any of the things you insinuate in your ranting and ravings right.
In fact all you do is epitomise my view. I maintain the area is full of undesirables and not an area in which I would like to live. Perhaps in the late seventies and early eighties it was a great place, but it aint no more, no matter how much planting you do!
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Rosythlover
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Oct 4, 13:14
Report commentI think the main reason we are not moderated is because we are voicing our opinions to what would appear to be inane ramblings of someone with less than average intelligence who resorts to 'tarring everyone' with the same brush. I notice in all your posts you feel you have the right to miscall and berate everyone and everything to do with Rosyth and no moderation is exerted. Rules being made the same for all me thinks. Suck it up!
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