A COMMUNITY is fearing someone could be seriously injured unless more parking facilities are created at the new care village in Lumphinnans.

Lindsay House was only opened last summer as part of the project to replace the Valley House and Jenny Gray House Residential Homes in Cowdenbeath and Lochgelly.

But within a matter of months the lack of parking at the multi million pound facility has caused all sorts of problems with dozens of cars parking on pavements in Cedar Crescent and Sycamore Crescent, leaving pedestrians with little option but to walk on the road.

Local councillor Alex Campbell wants action to stop a serious accident occurring and said: "It means that folk are parking on the pavement, often for long spells of the working day, and in the street, with the result that pavements and both the carriageways of Cedar Crescent and Sycamore Crescent are becoming clogged up.

"To get passed the cars on the pavements people have to walk on the road and it is a busy stretch linking with Gagarin Way which leads to the football hub.

"There simply has to be a better way to deal with this. There are a lot of young families in the village and a mum out with a pram would have to spend much of her time on the road which is totally unsafe."

Lumphinnans Community Council chairman Jim Martin added: "We warned way back at the planning stage that parking would have to be properly tackled and were assured it would be.

"Now, in reality, it is a shambles and we have a situation which is completely unsafe." See Page 15.