Fife Council leader Alex Rowley has used a visit to the Benarty Regeneration Action Group (BRAG)in Crosshill to highlight the need for more action on employability initiatives to support people into work. He was joined on the visit by Willie Clarke Chairman of the Cowdenbeath Area […]
The tenants of Graham Court Sheltered Housing in Lochore are celebrating the reopening of the complex following extensive refurbishments. Over the last year, Fife Council has made a significant investment to convert outdated bedsits into 20 units of modern flatted accommodation, along with replacing the roof and updating the fire […]
Councillors Alex Rowley and Willie Clarke put a motion to the Cowdenbeath Area Committee two years ago to agree to put money into a pilot project that would see tuition for Piping being put into local primary schools served by Beath High School . The committee have now been told that the project has proved […]
New Centre Open Local MP Gordon Brown joined up with Area Chair Willie Clarke to do the official opening of the new £3.8 million Benarty Centre with over 150 local people present for the celebration. In his speech Willie Clarke talked about the first group that had come together 60 years earlier to get the first […]
NEW HOUSES WELCOMED A housing development which will bring 31 new houses into the rented market has been hailed as ‘innovative’ and ‘much welcomed’ by Fife Council leader Alex Rowley and Cowdenbeath Area chair Willie Clarke. Both councillors met with Kevin Sharp, director of Sharp Homes, who, in partnership with Ore Valley Housing Association, […]
I took up Willie Clarkes invitation and visited the new build Benarty Centre in Lochore this morning. The new centre is looking good and will be completed by August with activities starting soon afterwards. Willie has been working for this new centre for many many years and I was delighted to work with […]
News that Benarty is to have a further 28 new flats built for sale and rent has been welcomed this week by Lochs councillors Alex Rowley and Willie Clarke. Sharp Construction Scotland Ltd have signed an agreement with Ore valley Housing Association that will see the eight blocks of 28 derelict flats demolished and […]