WEST Fifers can expect to see local greenspaces coming up roses in 2014.

Parks and play areas, as well as meadows and multi-use game areas (MUGAs), are set for improvements under Fife Council’s Greenspace Action Plan.

Subject to securing funding, a number of projects are planned for West Fife this year, including play areas in Crombie, Kinnedar Park, Torryburn, Kincardine Castlepark and Culross.

Skate parks are also earmarked for High Valleyfield, Inverkeithing and Dalgety Bay, as well a MUGA for North Queensferry.

Blairhall will get a MUGA and and parkour obstacle course, and work will continue to develop Valleyfield Woodland Park with the planting of an orchard and introduction of a sensory riding park.

In Dalgety Bay and Inverkeithing, discussions will continue about opening a new allotment site, and flower meadows will be expanded in Aberdour, Dalgety Bay, Inverkeithing, Rosyth, Limekilns, Comrie, Cairneyhill, Valleyfield, Kincardine and Saline.

Councillor Bobby Clelland, South West Fife area committee chair, said, “It’s been great to see the benefits of these improvements across our communities in South West Fife.

“Collectively these projects make such a difference to the visual appeal, leisure offering and biodiversity of our landscape.

“Securing funding can often be the most time consuming part of these sorts of community projects and we have benefitted from the good joint working that is in place between partners to maximise the opportunities available to us.

“I look forward to seeing the projects planned for this year get underway and hope that we have as productive a year in 2014.”