MEASURES to slow down traffic on Lochleven Road in Ballingry have been approved by Fife Council.

Speed cushions and raised tables will now be installed next to the new Kingdom Housing Association development at Kirkland Farm.

It's to the east of the B920 Lochleven Road and consists of 140 affordable homes which were built in three phases and completed last summer.

The council agreed last year that the roads within the new development will have 20mph speed limits.

And last week members of the Cowdenbeath area committee approved the speed reduction measures, which will be paid for by the developer.

The speed of traffic on the B920 has long been a concern for local councillors with Mary Lockhart telling the Times in 2019 that it was an "accident waiting to happen" with near misses a "regular occurrence".

She said: "Lochleven Road, running past Ballingry to the Fife boundary, has always been a very busy stretch of carriageway but these days it is even busier and now we have residents in Lochtyburn Avenue trying to come out of their street onto this racetrack of a stretch."