WORK on the two-classroom extension at Masterton Primary School in Dunfermline has been delayed.

Fife Council said the £1 million project, to alleviate capacity problems, will not be completed until next year.

It was decided to add two more classrooms to the school after approval was given to build more than 400 houses in the area.

An update at the education and children’s services sub-committee last week said there had been “slippage” in the capital investment plan for 2019-20.

A report added: “This slippage is the result of a delay to the two-classroom extension at Masterton Primary School. Work will commence in the Autumn and will be ready in Spring 2021.”

Miller Homes was given planning permission for 240 new houses – 60 of them will be affordable homes for council tenants – on a site off Lapwing Drive called Dover Heights.

Taylor Wimpey had previously been given the go-ahead for 116 and 90 homes at two sites, Meadowlands and Masterton.

The developers were asked initially by the council to pay £1.9m for a four-classroom extension, until the council admitted last year there had been “some double-counting” in their projections for the area and only two classrooms were needed.

The ongoing development of Dunfermline has given education bosses a headache with more children moving into new estates, with the result that school classrooms are filling up.

Extensions have already been built, or proposed, at Milesmark, St Margaret’s, Pittencrieff, Touch, Townhill, Carnegie and now McLean primary schools while Woodmill High reached full capacity last year.