Applicant: Fife Council

Total project cost: £1,088,496

LRP funding award: £683,496

Project aims

• Creation of serviced and accessible site to enable development of Class 4, 5 and 6 business units for lease or sale

Project benefits

• 1.05Ha of land turned from vacant and derelict to employment land
• Lever £4-£5m private sector investment
• Up to 57 direct FT jobs and 114 indirect FT jobs
• Creation of sustainably accessible employment land served by Levenmouth Active Travel Network and bus services

Applicant: CLEAR Buckhaven and Methil

Total project cost: £287,852

LRP funding award: £178,345

Project aims

• Planting and environmental improvements along key corridors in Methil and Buckhaven linking to River Leven.
• Seating areas, small scale public art
• Community engagement

Project benefits

• Biodiversity enhancements
• Volunteering opportunities
• Public ownership
• Enhancing active travel links to Cameron station
• Improving health through active travel
• Conservation

Applicant: Fife Employment Access Trust

Total project cost: £8,464,088

LRP funding award: £500,000

Project aims

• Silverburn Flax Mill restoration
• Provide a tourist information hub, hostel, café and shop
• Training facilities
• Community engagement

Project benefits

• Visitor attraction on Coastal Path
• Volunteering opportunities
• Employment
• Enhancing active travel links to Cameron station
• Improving health and wellbeing
• Rural skills

Applicant: Fife Council

Total project cost: £189,401

LRP funding award: £43,754

Project aims

• Create a ‘state of the art’ pump track with floodlighting

Project benefits

• Visitor attraction particularly for young people
• Visitors will use Levenmouth Rail to access the pump track
• Estimated 350 users per month

Applicant: Community Trade Hub

Total project cost: £269,400

LRP funding award: £202,050

Project aims

• Training programme for young people bridging the gap from education to work
• Local environment improvements carried out through training programme.

Project benefits

• Improve young peoples’ skills
• Increase employment opportunities
• Reduce antisocial behaviour

Applicant: Fife Council

Total project cost: £2,281,000

LRP funding award: £714,253

Project aims

• Build 7 business units

Project benefits

• Helping to create and sustain jobs
• Site is easily accessible from Cameron Bridge Rail Station through active travel network

Applicant: Fife Council

Total project cost: £6,400,000

LRP funding award: £1,747,046 over three years

Project aims

• Connect the communities of Levenmouth with essential services, employment areas, education facilities, leisure facilities and new rail stations

Project benefits

• New bus services serving all communities in Levenmouth and enabling connections to rail services for full duration of rail timetable
• Improved opportunities for travelling around Levenmouth by public transport
• Reduces reliance on private car transport
• Increases mode share to sustainable transport for residents and visitors

Applicant: Levenmouth Local Tourism Association

Total project cost: £77,820

LRP funding award: £58,365

Project aims

• Installation of a series of interpretation boards, signs, and displays around Levenmouth to both inform and entertain visitors to the area.

Project benefits

• Will be part of tourist offering for Levenmouth, with access by rail promoted as part of overall project promotion. Sites will lend themselves to people traveling between stations.
• Community led project will ensure it meets local people’s aspirations to see improvements in their area as part of the new rail line.
• Project led by local groups and businesses, using local resources to deliver Interpretation landmarks and trails ideally suited to rail users and active travel.
• Will create public art with a strong local theme and relevance.

Applicant: Fife Council

Total project cost: £335,000

LRP funding award: £252,000

Project aims

• Installation of a new state of the art skatepark on the site of the original park, including provision of streetlighting.
• Promotion and management of new skate park, encouraging use by local people and visitors and promoting events at park.

Project benefits

• Facility will be open 24/7 and free to use.
• Already popular so enhanced and improved facility will be more accessible, suit a wider range of users, including users with mobility issues, and will appeal to users from outwith Levenmouth Improves physical and mental health.
• Strong local support for project.
• Enhances Promenade area and provides another good attraction for Leven.

Applicant: Fife Heritage Railway

Total project cost: £480,000

LRP funding award: £360,000

Project aims

• Installation of a new steel framed and clad building on Heritage Rail site for public display and access to trains, train restoration and storage.
• Key facility identified in Business Plan for site enhancing visitor facilities, quality of destination and experience.

Project benefits

• Key offering in Levenmouth in terms of tackling skills gaps, developing young people, providing opportunities for all ages and abilities for leisure and social interaction.
• Project is part of overall development plan for the Heritage Railway, including the use of the new former site offices, bringing other LRP partners into the area, increasing activity in this area and linking in with active travel network.
• Enables a popular local attraction to develop into a high quality destination.

Applicant: Green Action Trust

Total project cost: £1,595,318

LRP funding award: £850,000

Project aims

• One year programme of engagement activities and events in support of the development of the Leven River Park Programme.
• Creation of river access routes and nature network and other activities including:

• Interpretation Planning
• Green Skills Academy (Led by FC)
• Explore Outdoors (FCCT led)
• Green Health Partnership (FCCT Led)
• Heritage group capacity building (GAT/ Archaeology Scotland Led)
• Ongoing engagement and consultation
• Nature Network Phase 1 (Planting, habitat enhancement, wetland and pond creation)
• River accessibility project (path and boardwalk provision)

Project benefits

• Involving community at all stages of project, development through to benefits delivery.
• Meets local aspirations for improvements and enhancements to the river Leven corridor and access to it.
• Delivers on a number of national strategies for climate change, place, NPF4, health improvement.
• Established partnership project.

Applicant: Methilhill Community Children's Initiative

Total project cost: £207,816

LRP funding award: £140,611

Project aims

• Expansion of current activity in community garden to a new building which is being leased long-term from Fife Council and will operate as a community centre for people living in the local area. Community centre located at Main Street, Methillhill
• Provide both indoor and outdoor facilities to deliver services.
• Increase the scale and scope of provision, allowing more comprehensive support, at a higher level, to better address the challenges members of community face as a whole.
• New building has office space, a kitchen and a main hall which can accommodate up to 80 people.
• Current garden not open to public for child protection reasons therefore new building will enable offerings accessible to whole community with an open-door policy allowing people from the community to drop in for more casual activities and flexible support.
• Indoor space will allow MCCI to increase services offered - baby groups; community cafe; book clubs; bingo nights; skills building groups; people’s pantry; arts groups.
• Allow extension of winter operating hours and activities, offering warm space provision to vulnerable members of the community struggling with cost of living.

Project benefits

• Re-activates key local facility.
• Delivers strongly on social inclusion and development.
• Directly addresses many local issues which contribute to the area’s inclusion in the SIMD.
• Area not currently supported by an LRP large grant award.

Applicant: BRAG Enterprises

Total project cost: £274,272

LRP funding award: £161,172

Project aims

• Development of the Together Levenmouth Community Hub situated in the centre of Leven High Street.
• Expand the usage of the Hub into an inclusive community venue.
• Build community wealth with a focus on supporting locals that are either economically inactive or are social isolated, including individuals who are not in employment or training or those with underlying health conditions and/or the elderly.
• Expand on delivery of current range of smaller community-based interventions including warm spaces and Bingo Buddies sessions
• New space will be complimentary to the existing uses of the Together Levenmouth Hub and will also add value to existing activities under the BRAG employability provision.

Project benefits

• Project focuses on social and economic development of local people encouraging community participation, reducing social isolation and improving opportunities for people to develop skills and experience new activities.
• Close to Leven Station so events and activities will be promoted to people travelling into Leven by rail.
• Capital investment in key Leven High Street building.
• Community hub will help to increase high street activity.

Applicant: Fife Council

Total project cost: £1,100,000

LRP funding award: £770,000

Project aims

• Deliver an exemplar active travel route along the length of the Leven Promenade linking the beach, golf courses, coastal path and the residential area at the east side of Leven to Leven Station.
• First phase of the Levenmouth Connectivity Project developed an Active Travel Route from Leven station platform to the town centre, using the first 300m of the promenade footway as far as School Lane.
• Beyond School Lane the promenade footway is acceptable for pedestrian use, although some sections are of a substandard width. Cyclists have to use the road and whilst it is subject to a 20mph speed limit with traffic calming, parked vehicles and it’s use as the main access to beach car parks means it offers a poor cycling level of service, particularly for inexperienced users.
• New route will improve walking, wheeling and cycling levels of service along the promenade and will be a key part of the Levenmouth Connectivity Project.
• This project will also be the first phase of a wider package of measures to improve Leven Promenade making it an attractive place to visit and spend time on, provide opportunities for informal recreation, improve the built environment of Leven, provide a multi-use events space, improve the climate resilience of the sea wall and reduce the visual impact of the existing parking provision.

Project benefits

• Directly links to Leven station so rail users can access promenade, beach, golf courses and Silverburn park by active means.
• Part of wider promenade improvement plans to encourage more visitors to Leven.
• Improves open space.
• Provides further opportunities for physical activity.
• Extend the current active travel provision in Leven.