A new £4.3m housing investment has been unveiled for the Dunfermline Area.

On Wednesday, a report by the local Area Committee outlined its plans to improve its council homes.

A total of 942 jobs will be carried out within the next year to deliver a range of home improvements, including:

* 146 improved heating systems

* 275 new kitchens

* 262 new sets of windows and doors

The work is part of a Fife-wide investment of almost £62m in council houses over the next year. More than £37m of the budget will be used to continue to carry out maintenance work on homes to bring them up to the Scottish Housing Quality Standard.

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A further £8m will be spent on wider investment works such as improvements to high rise housing, the conversion of bedsits to one and two-bedroom properties and decommissioning of sheltered housing to provide general needs homes as well as property extensions due to overcrowding, disabilities and for children with special needs.

An investment of more than £13m will also be made available to deliver on policy options, including the new build projects to construct new council homes, energy efficiency projects and estates initiatives.

Committee Chair Mike Rumney, said: "I'm pleased that so many improvement works will be carried out in the next year, bringing us closer to the target of 100% compliance with the Government’s Scottish Housing Quality Standard by 2015.

"The improvements will make real differences for tenants in the Dunfermline area and allow us to offer more fit for purpose, comfortable homes."

(JP/CD)