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Leslie Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan3.11 Activity and MovementThe bulk of the activity and movement is on the High Street. The majority of the trafficappears to be travelling to and from Glenrothes to the east and out to the M90 to thewest. It is moderately heavy and constant.Otherwise local traffic is for the sparse retail provision along the High Street or forresidential access. Both local traffic and pedestrian movement are greatly influenced bythe heavier through-traffic. Little provision is made for the pedestrian. Additionally thethrough-traffic has little effect on the economy and is detrimental to the overall characterof the town.Little use is made of the remaining vennels and pends except for access to buildings onbacklands, although one still runs from the High Street to the Commonty to the north,with high stone walls on either side. Some have been widened to provide access forcars.3.12 Public RealmLeslie Conservation Area is very simply provided with varieties of lampposts, seatingand waste bins. Maintenance of the greens appears to be regular and therefore not aproblem.LightingThe Green which is the main focus of the Conservation Area, has four different types oflamps sited around the grassed area, ranging from wall-mounted Victorian-style to tallsteel modern lamps. The High Street also has tall steel lamps which tend to overlydominate the streetscape and are considered unsympathetic to the Conservation Area.SurfacesOlder pavement surfaces consist of whinstone setts which still exist in certain areas,particularly along some of the frontages of houses. The original pavements were wide(not much different to today) and mainly of regularly shaped whinstone (square orrectangular) with granite kerbstones. The setts appear to be laid irregularly in the mainbut there are later instances of regularly laid patterns.Currently the pavements along the High Street are paved with a variety of surfaces,these being the setts, blacktop, or concrete, or all three together.22