Dave Dempsey, Conservative Councillor for the Inverkeithing & Dalgety Bay Ward, has welcomed the 2025-26 Area Roads Programme for South & West Fife but has called for additional money to be allocated in the upcoming Fife Council Budget.
Cllr Dempsey said “While Fife Council has been making some progress on ad hoc pothole repairs, large areas of road are in need of something more substantial. For some time, I’ve been focussed on the various Moray Ways in Dalgety Bay, which together form the town’s most important road. Everyone agrees that large sections of its surface are a mess but they have to compete for a limited budget with roundabouts and other bits of road where damage out of sight beneath the surface makes repair a higher priority. Over the last couple of years, ward councillors have been criticised when roundabouts in the town were worked on first.
“I’m pleased that the coming year will see further work on Moray Way but that’s not enough. The Council needs to vote through additional roads money, as it has in the last few years, so that Moray Way South, which is on the reserve list, is included. That extra cash ought to be built into the budget and not left at risk every February.
“Alongside that, there’s a separate budget for surface treatment, which sorts out the top layer without the extra cost of digging down., so the same cash sum fixes more road. Unfortunately, that budget isn’t subject to councillor approval, so we can’t co-ordinate the two. I was pleased that last week’s meeting of the South & West Fife Area Committee accepted my proposal that it investigates how to sort that out.
“There’s little that Fife Council looks after that impacts the public more than roads and pavements. Getting them sorted should be a top priority. Let’s hope the Budget achieves that.