Work set to start on new Fife care village

The first of its kind, the care village will see a nursery, a care home and residential housing offered on one site, at the former Kirkland High.

A replacement for Methilhaven Residential Care Home, it will also provide a ten-place day services facility with associated support rooms, community drop-in facility to serve the village and the community as a whole, as well as a 39-place nursery facility and external play area.

It will also boast a new playground, gardens, landscape open space and care housing bungalows, as well as being carbon friendly, with solar roof panels and a link to the district heating scheme.

The site was declared surplus land by the council after the completion of the new Levenmouth Academy, with planning permission for the development approved by Fife Council last December.

Work had been due to start by now, but was delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, however it will get underway on Monday, October 5.

Councillor Ken Caldwell, convener of the Levenmouth Area Committee, said: “I’m pleased to see that the new Kirkland Care Village is now about to move on, following slight delays due to the Covid pandemic.

“As area convener this is a project that I have followed closely and supported, and will be another first for Levenmouth by combining a care home with an integrated nursery in the same building.

“It’s been a fantastic month for Levenmouth, with the opening of Silverburn Park camping and motorhome site as well as the start of works to clear the Leven to Thornton Rail Link.”