[3] Lochgelly, as part of the old parliamentary constituency of West Fife, was known as "Little Moscow" up to the 1950s owing to its Communist political leanings.

Lochgelly is also the home of the most reputed firm that produced tawses, John Dick (Saddlers), and was hence a synonym for that typically Scottish device for corporal punishment.

[7] The loch was once a very popular spot for the local community and was used on a regular basis for water skiing up until the early 90s.

There is quarter mile oval racing track just outside the town known as Thunder Valley Raceway.

This replaced a full magazine, designed for free by a locally based not-for-profit Social Enterprise (Subliminal Directions), now closed.

Activities and successes include arranging the 'Bairns Ball' (a youth disco), which is held on a monthly basis in Lochgelly.

The aim is to release all material under a Creative Commons Licence, provide information about Lochgelly and the issues affecting the town and provide tutorials covering a wide range of technologies, such as using open source scripts for gaining a web presence, as well as articles on computer and online safety.

It gained charitable and social enterprise status and planned to redevelop their building with a complete upgrade of facilities but appears to have been abandoned for several years.

[citation needed] Approximately 4 km from Lochgelly is the Fife Ethylene Plant, known locally as Mossmorran and run by ExxonMobil.

This is one of Europe's largest ethylene plants[13] and is bordered by the communities of Lochgelly, Lumphinnans, Cowdenbeath and Auchtertool.

The wind farm is owned by Kennedy Renewables [17] who purchased the site from West Coast Energy.

It included a review of all design-based policies, simplifying the mechanisms to achieve good design for planning zones, cross departmental working with the transportation services so proposals can work towards the Scottish Government policy statement 'Designing for Streets'.

[21] It received criticisms from the Community Council and the Lochgelly Development Forum for ignoring them on specific issues.

[24] Further plans include completely redeveloping the town centre to improve access and better integrate walkways.