BENARTY Community Council have been quite right to ask Fife Council's Chief Executive to look at the issues raised by the Lochore Meadows Country Park affair.

The controversy over the replacement visitor centre at one of Fife's biggest visitor attractions is bad enough but now the management vacuum that has sprung up is even worse.

The community council has stated how the inadequate public consultation carried out by the Fife Coast and Countryside Trust on what the new visitor centre at the park would have in it has upset many factions in the Benarty area.

The people of Benarty feel this should be a building which really sells the park and its facilities to the whole of the UK and beyond but the what is proposed does not measure up to their expectations.

The loss of the Trust has left a hole in things meantime though as it means that there is no longtime management strategy currently in place and that is also posing a worry for the public.

There are fears that the funding for the new visitor centre could be lost and indeed if that happens the way ahead could be very difficult.

Can the current centre be put back into use? Perhaps but it would need a bit of work on it.

Can the proposal to build a new one still go ahead?

Perhaps but not having a park management structure in place is leaving things teetering a bit to say the least.

The fact is that such a magnificent facility has to have a focal point in it for the 2017 season and unless the plans are in place very quickly that simply might not happen.

So the only way to have a park centre will be to revamp what is already there and put it back into action.

The community is right to be very concerned and hopefully the Fife Council Executive Committee will come up with a workable solution next week.

If it does not Lochore Meadows could face a difficult season ahead.