FIFE Housing should be commended for coming up with their commitment to ensuring that the problems with the geo-thermal heating system in Lumphinnans will be fully upgraded.

The problems that the tenants in flats in Ochil View have suffered over the past could maybe have been sorted out months ago.

However, it would seem that the landlord has been trying to ensure that they get the right answer to the irregularities in the way that the heating and hot water systems in the flats have been operating.

As has been pointed out by one of our letter writers this method of supplying a communal heating system using a remnant of the mining industry on which Lumphinnans developed is a unique one for this part of Fife.

But it is an historic way of providing heating and in a former mining village surely the right way for it to be done.

Taking hot water from the remnants of the mining industry and making it available for tenants to heat their homes is really a very good way of working.

Maybe there are other parts of the Cowdenbeath-Lochgelly area where this could also be used for lets fully understand that each town and village was built on mining.

But as has been pointed out tenants need a heating system which is going to work. Especially in winter this is crucial, especially when you are talking about a lot of young families using the system.

Clearly Fife Housing are totally aware of what is needed and have put a put of cash forward to tackle this current problem which has plagued the system.

Hopefully they will move quickly to ensure things are sorted and this system can be fully relied upon long before the dark winter days arrive.