THERE are plans to try and stop residents in Dunfermline from using a car park on their street.

Kingdom Housing Association want permission for security fencing, automatic gates and bollards to regulate the use of 43 spaces at 73A to 73B Campbell Street.

The car park is allocated for vehicles of residents who stay in the nearby Linen Quarter as there isn't enough parking at the Pilmuir Street development.

And to prevent residents of Campbell Street - as well as city centre shoppers, workers and users of Carnegie Leisure Centre - using the bays for free, Kingdom have applied for planning permission for measures to restrict access.

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Six objections have already been submitted to Fife Council which means the application will likely go before a future meeting of the west and central planning committee.

Dunfermline Press: Polite notices apparently haven't worked as there are now plans for security fencing, gates and bollards at this Campbell Street car park. Polite notices apparently haven't worked as there are now plans for security fencing, gates and bollards at this Campbell Street car park. (Image: Google Maps)

Byzantian Developments Ltd began converting the old Pilmuir Works in 2019 and part of the deal included units for Kingdom Initiatives, a sister company of Kingdom Housing Association, who let private rented apartments to key workers such as nurses and other emergency services.

The car park is set aside for these properties. 

To enable it to go ahead, a bizarre set of circumstances led Fife Council to seek to buy a "floating shape" of nothing on Campbell Street.

They had to apply to the Scottish Government for a compulsory purchase order for an upper-floor flat that doesn’t exist any more.

It was in a tenement block that was demolished in the 1970s and the practice at the time was for the council to buy the interests of each flat from the owners.

However, due to an "anomaly" the title for 65 (west) Campbell Street, owned by the late Mrs Margaret Svozil who died in 1973, was never bought.

Back in January 2021, council solicitor Alison Marr had explained: “So the tenement buildings were demolished and we now have a kind of floating shape in Campbell Street that we don’t own.

“It’s now the intention to sell the larger lot to the developer of the Pilmuir Works as they require car parking and there’s not sufficient car parking in their own development.”