Council tenants have been celebrating this week, and are beginning to move into the new Castle Road houses in Rosyth – the first set of newly built Fife Council homes in over two decades.

The development of 35 properties off Castle Road in Rosyth is welcoming its first tenants, marking the completion of the first of five new build council house.

Tenant Karen Young moved into one of the new four bedroom properties with her family earlier this month after living in a smaller house, also in Rosyth, for the past five years.

Karen explained: “We’ve all settled in really well and love it here. We feel like we have loads of space. There is good storage in the house and the garden is a good size too. I have four children, two boys and two girls so having that extra space gives them proper room to play and it’s a great help!

“Living here feels like a fresh start, we’re settling into a lovely new home just in time for Christmas.”

Completion of these properties also means that Fife is the first Council in Scotland to incorporate safety features from ‘The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents’ (RoSPA) ‘Can the home ever be safe’? policy guidelines.

The new properties on Boyle Drive in Rosyth will help to meet housing needs of the local community and will include amenity houses and properties for wheelchair users. The one and two storey properties are a mix of two, three and four bedroom houses.

The venture, which was delivered on time and to budget, was project managed by Kingdom Housing Association on behalf of Fife Council and built by local contractors Campion Homes. The total cost of building these houses was £3.2m.  Grant subsidy was provided from the Scottish Government of £0.875m, with the remaining £2.3m being funded by Fife Council. 

Councillor Alice McGarry, Chair of the South West Fife Area Committee added: “The building of these new houses is not only a welcome boost to the housing stock in this area but it also creates a chain of council house lets as they were allocated to residents on the council’s transfer list. It allows even more people to get a home that meets their needs from the completion of this development.”

Bill Banks, Depute Chief Executive with Kingdom Housing Association concluded: “We were delighted to act as the Project Managers for Fife Council on this project. The delivery of affordable housing projects is becoming increasing more challenging, however the Castle Road project is an excellent example of a successful partnership approach.”

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