A long awaited Fife Council report on the future of the Inverkeithing High School site will finally be presented next month. 

It's been delayed since January of this year and will finally put forward the options for community use, sports and swimming facilities in the town. 

Local councillor David Barratt told the Press: "[The report has] been delayed again until November.

"Not entirely sure why, given that they should have been working on this for you know, the last couple of years at least. We were expecting it this month and even that was delayed."

The current Inverkeithing High will close in just under two years and a new £85m high school will open at the Fleet Grounds in Rosyth - work is already underway. 

Cllr Barratt has led a campaign to keep The Wing, the community-use part of the school with a swimming pool and other sports facilities, and argued that it could be part of a mixed development with housing on one part of the site helping to pay for an enhanced sports and leisure offering. 

He's been kept waiting for the long promised report but one of the options suggested by the council is to move community-use facilities to Rosyth - something he and fellow SNP ward councillor Sarah Neal are dead against.  

Cllr Barratt previously told the Press that there were worries in the town that, with the new school due to open in Rosyth in August 2026, time is running out for plans to be put in place for the site.

In February, council leader David Ross said it would cost around £20 million to refurbish The Wing at Inverkeithing High or to build a brand new sports facility. 

The following month Cllr Barratt said locals had "no faith" that the council will keep their promise and deliver a sports hub on the high school site.

Since then, the report has seen a further eight months of delays. 

Cllr Barratt continued: "They'll need some very good excuses if they don't come up with the goods in November.

"As to the content or what the recommendations of that paper will be, I hope that they will take it seriously and it will look at meaningful investment in sports and community facilities including swimming, that will serve the entire area. 

"From my point of view, that needs to be investment in the Inverkeithing site and that's certainly what I will be pushing for.

"That's not from a kind of parochial view of 'I represent Inverkeithing, therefore it must be in Inverkeithing'.

"I think it actually serves the wider area, including Rosyth, better to have dedicated sports facilities with a dedicated swimming pool that will be community accessible at all times of the year and all times of the day. 

"And we shouldn't be replicating what we've currently got, which is a facility attached to a high school that inevitably gets monopolized by education and unavailable to the community."

Fife Council confirmed that the report is being prepared for the cabinet committee meeting on November 7.