The Lochgelly Industrial Park could be expanded to include a new, “bespoke” warehouse, office and training facility for a local company.

AIC Heating UK Ltd have asked Fife Council for planning permission to create a “high specification, bespoke, sustainable facility” for their “UK wide distribution business in Fife”.

The company currently operates from Inverkeithing’s Belleknowes Industrial Estate but AIC has “outgrown that building" and has a need for a new, larger, and more energy efficient facility.

“AIC are seeking to relocate within Fife to a new facility to continue to develop their business,” a planning statement explained.

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The statement continued: “The new facility will be used for the storage and distribution of their product range to the whole of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.”

The company was founded locally in 2001 and has since become a specialist distributor of gas boilers, water heaters and water storage units, as well as renewable products such as air source heat pumps and energy (battery) storage systems.

“AIC will also operate a state of the art training facility to upskill our industry in the installation, maintenance and operation of our products and facilitate the introduction of our renewable product range to assist in the transition to achieving net zero,” the planning statement said.

They highlighted that the site is already allocated for “general employment class” development in the FIFEPlan, the council's local development plan, and the company is in the process of purchasing the land for the building.