DISUSED land next to Lynebank Hospital in Dunfermline is set to be turned into 114 new homes. 

NHS Fife have teamed up with BDW Trading Ltd – part of Barratt Homes – to develop an area to the south of their facility. 

The site has been cleared to enable housebuilding, with two-, three- and four-bedroom homes and cottage flats proposed. 

The plans envisage a mixture of detached, semi-detached and terraced units and include a play area and open space. 

The application was given the go-ahead last week at the west planning committee.

The site, still owned by NHS Fife, is 3.51 hectares and there is an access road running through it to the remaining Lynebank Hospital from South Larch Road. 

To the east is South Fod Farm, where BDW have permission to build 85 new homes and have suggested could provide another access route. 

Approval of that site, both applications were agreed by the same committee, seemed pivotal as a council report stated: “The lack of a secondary access does not make the site (Lynebank South) unacceptable but does constrain the size that the development can be.”

Four letters of objection were received, including one from Touch and Garvock Community Council.

Concerns included the impact on local schools, the extra traffic on South Larch Road, difficulty for drivers exiting onto Linburn Road, loss of trees, too many houses for the size of site, overshadowing, loss of peace and quiet and South Larch Road becoming an “island” between two developments if South Fod Farm goes ahead. 

The applicants will be asked to pay £561,100 in education contributions and £101,000 transport costs.