Plans to restore Dunfermline’s Pittencrieff Park as one of the country’s premier family attractions will take a significant step forward next month.
Work is set to start on a major extension and refurbishment of the Glen Pavilion as part of a planned investment programme to give the town park a much-needed makeover over the coming months.
The revamp of the park’s focal point building comes after a survey of park users and is being backed by Fife Council and Pittencrieff Park’s owners the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust.
The trust has pledged capital investment of up to £1 million towards the project, which will see the creation of a 120-seat cafe with a linking corridor to the rear of the building to allow the different spaces in the building to be used to much greater effect.
The new cafe will further extend the footprint of the Glen Pavilion building and has been designed to provide a year-round centre for park visitors.
Bill Livingstone, Carnegie Dunfermline Trust chairman, said: ”Andrew Carnegie described his gift of Pittencrieff Park to the people of Dunfermline as the most ‘soul-satisfying gift he had ever made’.
”As custodians of that legacy since 1903, the trustees are delighted to make this major new investment with our partners, Fife Council, as part of our ambition to re-establish the Glen as one of Scotland’s top visitor attractions and to see its facilities enhanced for the many families who visit the park.”