The provision of council housing, part of a nation-wide trend towards this type of tenure, gave the local development corporation an even greater overall ability to implement its vision of a planned built environment while also fulfilling one of the primary aims of the new towns: to create affordable housing for workers in areas that were to be centres of new industry and economic growth. Productive coal measures were largely recorded in the southern parts of Glenrothes, approximately south of the line of the B921 Kinglassie road. In February 2014 Fife Council's executive committee voted to close one of Glenrothes' primary schools at Tanshall as part of a wider school estate review which sought to reduce costs. The different areas ("precincts") of Glenrothes have been named after the hamlets that were already established in the area (e. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data.

Responsibilities for the assets, management and governance of all of the new towns were to be transferred to either private sector companies, or to the local authorities or other government organisations. Without prejudice to the section Liability below, the Service may be temporarily unavailable during maintenance, updates, etc.Glenrothes has a planned road network with original masterplans establishing the principle that "through traffic" be bypassed around the housing precincts by a network of "Freeway" and "Highway" distributor roads. Internally the church contains a large mural created by Alberto Morrocco titled 'The Way of the Cross', which was completed in 1962. Two town artists, David Harding (1968–78) and Malcolm Robertson (1978–91), were employed in the lifetime of the Glenrothes Development Corporation (GDC).

The palate lands with rounded grace, delivering a spray of sea air, fresh berries, and sweet baking spices. The town forms part of the county constituency of Glenrothes, electing one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom by the first past the post system. Regardless of whether the Service offers the functionality to contribute, you are solely responsible and liable for any content and information that you create, upload, post, publish, link to, duplicate, transmit, record, display or otherwise make available on the Service or to other Members, such as chat messages, text messages, videos, audio, audio recordings, music, pictures, photographs, text and any other information or materials, whether publicly posted or privately transmitted (“Contributions”). Douglas Mason, known as one of the engineers of the " Thatcher revolution" and the "father of the poll tax", set up home in Glenrothes in the 1960s and lived most of his adult life there.Separating industry from housing areas in planned industrial estates was a key element of early plans. It comes from a single bourbon hogshead and was bottled at cask strength with no colouring or chill-filtration.

North Glenrothes Community Council and Pitteuchar, Stenton and Finglassie Community Council form the lowest tier of governance whose statutory role is to communicate local opinion to local and central government. The new distillery, named Inchdairnie, focuses on exporting to markets in India, Africa and the Far East. The town is also home to a number of churches which act as important landmarks due to their unique architectural styles and sometimes their locations at key road junctions.

Peter Grant of the Scottish National Party is the MP for Glenrothes after being elected in the 2015 general election and the snap election in 2017. It was however populated in the early 1950s, in part by families moving from the declining coalfield areas of Scotland. Redevelopment on the site of the former mills for mixed uses including around 800 new homes, retail, businesses and industry commenced in early 2022.