Blue alert! Bluebells on their way – and earlier than last year…

The Woodland Trust is calling for the public to find their nearest wood and record the first appearance of native bluebells, as it tracks the arrival: http://www.naturescalendar.org.uk/map/current.htm?rsid=164&reid=3&ry=2012&rs=S of the flowers across the country this spring. The conservation [...]

Corporate Hospitality from Mossmorran

It emerged at the Lochgelly Community Council meeting for March, that Mossmorran has been offering and providing gifts and events, to community representatives that serve on the Mossmorran Community Liaison Group. This may also extend to local representatives that serve on other Mossmorran [...]

Share your local News & Views

We are making a call to members of the local community who would like to create and share their local news and views about Lochgelly and the surrounding areas. There are many local issues within the Lochgelly area, and many positive and negative developments and news, but due to time [...]

Homemade Dandelion Cordial

If your looking at trying something new and cheap this week why not make the most of the abundance of Dandelions growing about us in Lochgelly. Here is a really easy recipe to try and it makes for an amazing alternative to squash. Ingredients: As many Dandelion heads as you can get, [...]

Archive for October, 2011

Community Council (Oct 11)

7 months ago

by Lochgelly | Views 386

One of the site coordinators; James, attended the latest Community Council meeting (12th October) to raise the issue of Little Raith Wind Farm. At the same time, this has given us an opportunity to provide an update on the Lochgelly Community Council. Note: The report below may contain errors as [...]

LSPTG Report (Part I)

7 months ago

by Lochgelly | Views 240

Recently, Fife Council undertook a public consultation for the Lochgelly Supplementary Guidance and Transport Guidance (LSPTG) which we had critised due to the length of the document and complexity (View our articles). We also spoke with several MSPs and we need to thank MSP Willie Rennie who [...]

Sunflower Nursery – Help Haiti Now

7 months ago

by Lochgelly | Views 291

The Sunflower Nursery is very active locally raising funds for a range of selected charities. Recently the nursery held a Macmillan Coffee Morning which raised a total of £295 for the charity. The nursery would like to thank everyone who helped, baked and came along to the event. You can learn more [...]

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many thanks for your research on mossmorran and the little raith wind farm

7 months ago

by chic | Views 549

well done on your work regards the wind farm being dumped on our door step i live in watson st cowdenbeath and i think it a disgrace that the council pass these applications without regard for the well being of the community, as for mossmorran it would be very interesting to see a survey done now [...]

National Wind Watch

7 months ago

by McKintosh | Views 620

Whilst I personally dislike the current proliferation of Wind Farms in my area, I feel it is up to the local community officials to speak on behalf of the public and to negotiate on our behalf. Although I reserve the right to voice my opinion, it is only an opinion, each of us should make up our [...]

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Little Raith Wind Farm – Setback Zones

7 months ago

by Lochgelly | Views 346

In a previous article we discussed the ‘Community Benefit‘ to be provided to the local communities through the 4 Winds Development Trust. The amount offered (£45,000) is pennies compared to the additional costs the local communities will be losing amounting to £763,950.00, which will increase per [...]

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