ROADWORKS costing £700,000 will take place over a six-month period in Dunfermline.

Fife Council have planned EIGHT resurfacing jobs between October 2018 and March 2019.

One of the jobs is on a busy main route into Queen Margaret Hospital in Dunfermline, on Whitefield Road.

Phase one will cost £125,000 and see the stretch between the hospital and the railway bridge resurfaced in November.

There will be also be work on a section of the C46 Kingseat Road, connecting Kingseat and Halbeath, which is estimated to start in October and finish in November. It will cost £150,000.

Also due to start in October is the resurfacing of the full length of St Leonards Place and Forth Street, at a cost of £65,000 and £60,000 respectively.

Another six-figure job is on Chalmers Street, from Pittencrieff Street to Golfdrum Street, with improvements costing £110,000 to begin in January and be complete in February.

The full length of Trondheim Parkway West is to be resurfaced in February, at a price of £75,000, and £50,000 of improvements at the build-outs on Blacklaw Road will be carried out the same month.

All of Main Street in Halbeath is due to be resurfaced in March next year, at a cost of £65,000.

Category 2 works, which have an estimated cost but no scheduled start time, include Broomhead Drive, Carnock Road, Masterton Road and Morrison Drive, all in Dunfermline.