Tentsmuir car park and access road shut this week

Visitors to Tentsmuir in the north-east of Fife are being asked to avoid the car park during this week.

Forestry and Land Scotland says that the car park will be closed from today to allow the organisation to carry out a general repair of the road.

The access road will also not be available, but its hoped that the road will be re-opened this coming Saturday (26 March).

Robin Lofthouse, its Area Visitor Services Manager, said: "The road has been in need of some attention for a while and with the our teams all focused on the clear-up work after the recent storms, we’re taking the opportunity to also tackle this job.

"We have a civil engineering team currently working to repair roadside potholes along the route.

"The road is currently still passable but once this stage of the work is complete, we’ll be looking to deal with the potholes in the road itself.

"Unfortunately, that means we will have to close the road to visitors as high volumes of traffic make it difficult for our contractors to work efficiently.

"However, we will make sure that local residents will still be able to leave and return to their properties.

"Roadside parking is not an option and will only result in congestion, disruption to our work and could potentially block access for emergency services.

"We apologise in advance for any inconvenience but would also ask that visitors co-operate and allow us to get the job completed as quickly as we can so we can re-open the road."