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accessible to Fife’s residents.89. Planning for current and future health care provision means locatingservices locally or enabling good access to services on a regional basis– across Council boundaries, if necessary. Healthcare, recreational,and retail services – if not provided locally – are available in Mid Fife,Dundee, and Perth. Transport links to these areas are thereforeimportant to those resident in the Local Plan area. Taken together withother aspects of the strategy, the policy objectives in this Local Plancontribute to achieving the aims of Fife’s Community Plan in terms ofproviding for stronger, safer, and well-educated communities.90. The strategy for the future development of Fife’s hospital andcommunity health services in the Local Plan area includes theconstruction of a new hospital and health centre in St Andrews, servingthe wider area. In Cupar, the NHS Fife Project Team has takenaccount of new housing development over the period to 2026 whenreporting plans for healthcare provision. A business case has beenprepared for the redevelopment of the Adamson Hospital and theCupar Health Centre to include health centre and hospital facilitieswithin the Cupar locality. Where necessary, land will be zoned forhealth and care facilities including nursing homes. Developercontributions will be sought to assist in the provision of new orexpanded facilities where this is necessitated by new housingdevelopment. Sites for care homes are also identified as part of mixeduse development for Strategic Land Allocations.91. Services infrastructure92. The supply and availability of water services – sewerage in particular –is a national planning issue. Scottish Water, as the body responsiblefor these services, is required to meet the EU Water FrameworkDirective 2000, on the treatment of wastewater and this is driving itsspending priorities. This has had the effect of restricting the availabilityof resources to meet the infrastructure needs arising from newdevelopment and means that the implementation of the Local Plan’sdevelopment strategy is affected significantly by the available capacityin the system for the first five years or so of the Plan period. Land fornew development is allocated and phased to take account of thisrestriction. This is reflected in the phasing of land for development inAnstruther, Cupar, St Andrews, and within the Tayport/Newport/Wormitarea. In accordance with Policy D1 (Developer Contributions), wheredevelopment proposals require additional investment in water anddrainage services, the Council requires that these will be paid for bythe developments to be served.93. Waste management is primarily a strategic matter and is addressed inthe Fife Structure Plan and in the Fife Area Waste Plan. The Local Plancontributes to the implementation of these documents’ policies bysafeguarding land at Lower Melville Woods, by Ladybank, as a site for