Fife Council to resurface two roundabouts in Dalgety Bay

Councillors were told that Fife Council are about to start £140,000 of carriageway resurfacing works which will cause some headaches for motorists.

The two pieces of work are at the Letham Hill and St David's roundabouts - which will cost £80,710 and £57,599 respectively - which are close to the Dalgety Bay Sports Centre, the Compass pub and St David's Business Park, as well as residential streets.

The South and West Fife area committee heard that the two projects are the only carriageway resurfacing schemes in the area roads programme for 2024-25 that are still to be done.

The Lethamhill Roundabout at Harbour Drive, next to the Dalgety Bay Sports Centre, is to be resurfaced. (Image: Google Maps) READ MORE: MoD aiming to 'speed up' the dismantling of old nuclear subs at Rosyth

Vicki Storrar, lead consultant in roads, lighting and asset management at the council, said: "We've made very good progress.

"All but two schemes have been completed which are the two roundabouts in Dalgety Bay.

"They are programmed for delivery in November / December."

The committee was told in February that the area roads programme for this financial year had seven category one carriageway resurfacing projects that were to be addressed in the "immediate term".

Almost £1 million has been spent on smoothing two sections of the A907 between Bogside and Comrie while improvements have been carried out at the C51 road west of the A823 near Saline (£97,238); Walker Street in Kincardine (£51,358); and a section of Masterton Road, west from the junction with the B981 near Inverkeithing (£132,674).

The St David's Roundabout, connecting Harbour Drive and St David's Drive in Dalgety Bay, is also to be resurfaced. (Image: Google Maps) Local councillor Dave Dempsey had previously argued: "I struggle with approving a programme that puts these two roundabouts in Dalgety Bay that no-one complains about and to my mind are not in bad nick, ahead of Moray Way that everyone complains about and is clearly in need of attention."

However, Ms Storrar had replied: "Roundabouts are actually high stressed areas in comparison to straight roads and the two on the list have significant structural failures.

"These two roundabouts do need to get done ... and will deteriorate very quickly if they're not."

Ms Storrar said there are still footway improvements to be carried out at Lade Braes in Dalgety Bay, to be done in March at a cost of £15,000, and at Hilton Road in Rosyth, the £59,500 works are due in February / March.

The £23,000 of path improvements on the east side of Boreland Road in Inverkeithing, close to the railway station, are on hold until Network Rail complete embankment stabilisation works.

Traffic management schemes, for a bus border at Church Street in Inverkeithing (£10,000) and A907 footway upgrades between Gowkhall and Lundin Road (£30,000), are set to go ahead in February / March.