A DUNFERMLINE park remains in a state of disrepair - nearly three years after work was carried out by developers.

A section of Headwell Park was dug up by I & H Brown back in 2021 to allow for essential drainage works to take place.

However, despite promises the land would be restored to its previous condition, residents are still waiting for the necessary work to be completed.

Local MSP Shirley-Anne Somerville has expressed her concern over the saga and called on Fife Council to act so that the issue is addressed.

Dunfermline Press: The area in Headwell Park.The area in Headwell Park. (Image: Shirley Anne Somerville MSP)

“It is regrettable that Fife Council have failed to press the developers harder to complete their restoration of Headwell Park," she said.

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“It is also unacceptable that the local authority have allowed residents to be left with an area of park land that is a shadow of the space it used to be.

“Local residents deserve better, and despite the best efforts of the community council, the issue has not improved.

“It is vital that Fife Council take the views of residents seriously and explain to the developers that they will not be accepting any further excuses”

Local resident Colin Gourlay has been campaigning to urge the local authority to take action.

He added: “Repeated site meetings and expressions of dissatisfaction to management at Fife Council have been met with hollow excuses and disinterest, bordering on contempt for residents’ frustrations over the Council’s mismanagement of this public asset.

“Fife Council has allowed I&H Brown to disrespect our park and neglect their conditional responsibility to restore the surface.

“We have had a number of insubstantial excuses to justify their abdication of responsibility and currently they don’t plan to have the park restored satisfactorily until towards the end of 2024 - almost three years after the works were completed!

“The community deserve an apology, satisfactory swift restoration of the surface, and to be compensated for the three-year loss of this popular amenity.”

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Fife Council's Estates & Assets Service Manager, Michael O'Gorman, said they have been, and will continue, to press I&H brown to re-instate the land at Headwell Park in Dunfermline.

“A number of attempts have been made to do this, however, this work is weather dependent and has been hampered by the heavy rain we’ve been experiencing," he said.

“The land was re-levelled last autumn, and reseeding is now due to take place.

“We look forward to this work being completed as soon as possible so that the grass can benefit from the full duration of the growing season, and so we can take it back under our control for the public to enjoy.”

I&H Brown declined to comment when approached by the Press.