PLANS for a new hot food takeaway in Rosyth have been refused by Fife Council.

Strategic Commercial Investments Ltd, of Edinburgh, had sought consent to set up shop on a grass verge next to Fairykirk Road.

A statement had outlined proposals for a "non-domestic kitchen annexe" to provide food and hot drinks to customers and staff of the adjacent businesses.

They wanted to use a repurposed shipping container, with timber cladding and a corrugated metal roof, and proposed opening hours of 7am to 6pm, Monday to Friday, and 8am to 2pm on Saturday.

However the site is next to the busy Admiralty Road roundabout, that leads to the M90 motorway, and the council said the plans would result in "unacceptable and significantly detrimental road safety impacts".

The plans were also met with six letters of objection with additional concerns about the impact on local residents, specifically to do with ventilation and smell.

A council report said the site was within Rosyth's "settlement envelope" and that meant there was a "broad presumption" in favour of development, adding it was small scale and unlikely to result in any "significant harm" to the character of the area.

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However, it didn't tally with other policies and the local authority's roads and transportation service recommended refusal.

Officers pointed out that all of the spaces within the car park have been allocated to specific businesses and there would be no available spaces for customers solely visiting the hot food takeaway.

The report went on: "It is noted that the supporting statement advises that it is intended that prospective customers would be from the surrounding business units, however, there would be no enforceable means of preventing additional members of the public visiting the site or controlling the level of traffic generated by the development.

"Furthermore, given the location and visibility of the proposal directly adjacent to the busy Admiralty Road roundabout, there is the potential that the development would attract customers who would not otherwise be visiting this site and using the parking area that serves the adjacent commercial units.

"The proposed hot food takeaway could therefore result in an increase in vehicles visiting the site and due to the lack of off-street parking for the takeaway, this would result in vehicles either being parked on Fairykirk Road or outwith the bays within the car park, all to the detriment of pedestrian and road safety."

It concluded that the increased parking demand would create an "unsafe environment" for vehicles and pedestrians.