Dura Den

A Fife road which collapsed after it was flooded during "extreme rainfall" has reopened after three years. Major engineering works have now been completed and the road through Dura Den is open. The road had been closed since October 2012 when ...

A house in Dura Den, badly damaged by severe flooding in autumn 2012, has finally been demolished as restoration work continues in the hamlet. When water built up then breached a wall at the side of a blocked weir, the large roadside house caught the ...

One of the houses that came to symbolise the devastation caused by a flood which afflicted a Fife community in 2012 has been demolished. The house in Dura Den, near Cupar, had its gable wall swept away by a river of water and was beyond repair.

Reconstructions of a road destroyed by floodwater has divided opinion in the community through which it runs. While many in and around Dura Den are anxious to see the road reopen two years after the devastating flood which also struck several houses, ...

The road which runs through Dura Den in Fife was destroyed by a deluge of water which also ripped apart a house and flooded several other homes. Since then traffic has been unable to pass through the community on the C45 between Cupar and Pitscottie.

“This has been a complex and challenging project and has been a long time in the planning. “I commend Dura Den residents for their patience and ask for their co-operation as the works get underway. I hope residents will be happy with the end result.”.