New housing estate for former sports complex in Fife town

A total of 58 affordable homes will be built on the site that was once home to Astro Soccer Complex at Viewfield in Glenrothes -- just yards away from the Michael Woods Sports and Leisure Centre.

They will be built by Stirling-based Robertson Partnership Homes for the council.

As well as the affordable housing, developers say the project will also provide a much-needed upgrade to a football club’s car park, which shares the eastern access into the wider site.

The brownfield site, which borders Glenrothes Strollers’ main facility and playing fields, has been derelict for over a decade and the majority of it is now grassland, rubble and bare ground

The new housing development will comprise a row of 19 semi-detached and terraced houses along the northern boundary. There would be an area of semi-detached and cottage flats in the centre of the site, and a mix of semi-detached, detached and terraced properties along the southern and western boundaries.

The homes will be a mix of cottage flats , town houses, and two, three and five-bedroom houses, plus wheelchair and amenity bungalows.

Fife Council owns the site and will buy the homes once built.

Councillor John Beare, SNP member for Markinch, Leslie and Glenrothes North, questioned a proposal to flatten a row of trees which sit as a buffer with homes at Balfour Gardens, but added: “I welcome the application. We know the pressures our housing service, and housing in general, faces across the whole of Fife.