Regeneration of Hyundai site gets final go-ahead
Gary Fitzpatrick • Published 20 Sep 2012 16:30
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SHEPHERD Offshore has passed its final planning hurdle and been given permission to go ahead with its Halbeath project.
The former Hyundai and Motorola factory, built as a major national employment centre but never occupied, has now been demolished.
It is hoped that 1000s of job will eventually arrive and the project will be a major boost for the West Fife economy.
The site will see up to 400 homes built and employment created through the creation of a renewables hub.
The Tyneside-based owners, Freddie and Bruce Shepherd, are involved in similar green energy projects in Newcastle.
The Halbeath site will also have a hotel, an education campus and retail outlets.
The latter aspect of the plans had been the subject of an objection from Dunfermline Delivers.
However, the application, which was significantly contrary to the development plan for the area, was passed unopposed by Fife Council today.
This article appeared in Dunfermline Press 20 Sep 12
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speckledtangerine
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Sep 20, 17:36
Report commentWhilst cautiously welcoming the redevelopment of, what is more or less a derelict site, it all seems pretty vague to me. The site already has a history of being a white elephant.
Are there any details of who these retail outlets may be let by? Who are likely to be occupying these large/smaller units?
And another four hundred houses in the eastern expansion. Commuterville over on that side of the town is sucking the life out of the centre and turning into a big 21st century Cumbernauld.
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ItsErnie
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Sep 20, 19:36
Report comment"It is hoped that 1000s of job will eventually arrive and the project will be a major boost for the West Fife economy."
Pigs will fly first - this is nothing more than another housing estate and support infrastructure. What a magnificent return on the costs of demolishing the Hyundai white elephant. Shepherd 10 - Fife Council nil.
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kaka30
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Sep 20, 20:22
Report commentSurely demolishing the factory was a good thing whatever the cost, especially for people who live nearby. If the new project provides thousands of jobs then great but at the very worst jobs will be provided in the building industry & a vast empty building wont be there anymore.
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vinoboy35
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Sep 20, 20:27
Report commenti am more interested in whether Carnegie College re-locates to this soulless site and not to town centre .Alex Rowley launched his town centres summits with great fanfare ,has he did any lobbying for the college to move to town centre ?????? Or is it all window dressing with no substance ?
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TheDEXExpress
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Sep 20, 21:08
Report commentI'm with ItsErnie and Vinoboy on this one.
I'm sure it's only a matter of time before Fife Council's Director of Education issues a public statement setting out in detail how the Council plans to accommodate the many children who will live in these new houses in the local schools. I look forward to reading that statement in The Press so that this individual can be held to account should we have a repeat of the various fiascos seen elsewhere in the area in recent years. No doubt the Press are warming up a journalist to obtain such a statement as I type. Given that, as the story acknowledges, this development is contrary to the development plan, presumably someone somewhere is going to be doing some thinking about the implications.
I am not surprised that Dunfermline Delivers objected, as the retail element of the masterplan, if it ever materialises, will indeed act as a further disincentive to folk who might otherwise have visited the centre of Dunfermline. We have had lots of positive noises recently about exciting new ideas to reinvigorate the town centre and then the councillors - of all parties - pass this unopposed. Madness. Sometimes one wonders why we bother with land use planning at all. The land was zoned as employment land and should have stayed that way. It's a shame that the councillors did not treat this proposal in the same way they did the Scarborough Muir proposal at Rosyth Waterfront.
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vinoboy35
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Sep 20, 21:18
Report commentHi Dex - the same education official was promoted to Executive Director on £110K (at least) , planners talking to education officials , aye right.Shepherds want Carnegie College in their site ,what a crap experience for students plus a hammer blow to town centre .Imagine students after 5/6 pm on Dunfermline High Street going to cafes /bars rather than the empty streets we get at the minute -real opportunity to get the place buzzing .We are in danger of repeating same mistakes that killed town centre originally -do they ever learn ???????
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DunfermlineEast
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Sep 21, 09:20
Report comment'Education' could mean a new High school. Millburn and St Colomba are old and it is unfair that Queen Anne and Dunfermline HS have/getting state of the art buildings while the former are past their usage and the influx from Duloch means that new buildings are required. A merged school would save money.
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redrobin
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Sep 21, 13:55
Report commentJust a moment..think hard ?? was it not always the intention to grant planning permission or whatever to try to recover taxpayers money to save face?...
When when will we learn in this country to say no and stop voting for so called representatives to sell us white elephants?...I hear u say ? if we don't take risks and do no not have beliefs we are going nowhere, yeah but the voter has intelligence and it will bite the bum!
Independance!!!???...I do not not think so Mr Salmond!!
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redrobin
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Sep 21, 14:03
Report commentspecltang
And they downgrade Q.M hOSPITAL?....out of touch or what?
more power to ur elbow (finger) buddy
U know I am am gonna get comments for my words...yeah big enuff..old enuff..no dimentia yet...
Luv u
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Dave56
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Sep 21, 14:16
Report commentEverybody needs to take a look at the map, the "town centre" is on the outskirts, the real centre lies round about abbey view, flatten that and build a vision for the 21st century , re house everyone from abbey view in a regenerated high street area.
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MarcsMum
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Sep 21, 15:50
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kaka30
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Sep 22, 09:30
Report commentI have to agree with vinoboy35, if Carnegie College were to be relocated in the town centre it would be a great boost. Im sure the traders would welcome the students spending their disposable income in the shops & bars, making the place livelier. It would certainly be a step in the right direction, it just needs people with foresight & bottle to push it through. Saying that i think we all know that it isnt going to happen.
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DunfermlineEast
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Sep 27, 09:55
Report commentI meant Millburn! A new High school is required and either placing it at Duloch (Halbeath is across the road) or on the pitches of the current Millburn and St.Colomba schools.
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brandadam
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Jan 16, 15:38
Report commentGreat writeup, Just love to say that your article is excellent . It is informative too. I have found a good site for my Hyundai. Recommend?
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