Perth & Kinross Council

(from left) Councillors John Rebbeck and Dave Doogan, Springfield chairman Sandy Adam, leader of Perth and Kinross Council Ian Campbell and Bertha Park land owner Alistair Ritchie Springfield Properties has begun work on site for the 3,000 homes in the new village, Bertha Park, just off the Inveralm

Minister for local government and housing, Kevin Stewart MSP, praised good quality, energy efficient, affordable homes when he visited a new housing estate in Blackford yesterday. The 38 social housing properties were developed by Hillcrest Housing Association and Robertson Partnership Homes, who ar

Housing & communities committee vice convener, Cllr Harry Coates, and committee convener, Cllr Peter Barrett Around 450 blocks of flats owned by Perth & Kinross Council have been fitted with new secure door entry systems under an improvement programme.

Perth & Kinross Council has been awarded over £1,350,000 by the Scottish Government to continue its programme of external wall insulation on local homes. The programme is aimed at homes with walls that are unsuitable to be fitted with cavity wall insulation. More than 1,100 privately owned hous

Perth & Kinross Council’s new housing and communities convener, Councillor Peter Barrett, has visited the latest new houses to be built by the local authority. Both being built on the site of former council lock-ups, the developments at Nimmo Avenue and Cairns Crescent in Perth are part of the

Services provided by Perth & Kinross Council’s Housing Advice Centre will move to Pullar House from next month. The council has taken the opportunity to end the lease on the Housing Advice Centre at York Place as part of a continued effort to reduce its property portfolio and deliver services

All Perth & Kinross Council housing tenants are being invited to attend the annual Tenant Conference 2017 on June 29. The event will be held at the Dewar’s Centre, Perth, from 6pm to 8.30pm.

Perth and Kinross Council has granted permission to build 700 new homes in Scone. Councillors voted to grant planning permission in principle for the Scone North project despite more than 900 objections being lodged over concerns including traffic and pollution.

Perth & Kinross Council has officially launched a protocol to support tenants with hoarding issues. The protocol, the first of its kind in Scotland, has been developed by a partnership of the council, NHS Tayside and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, and with the advice of Scotland’s first

31b-37 High Street in Perth Property owners in Perth city centre have begun a comprehensive repairs project to a historic tenement building.

Perth & Kinross Council has approved a new hoarding protocol to support tenants with hoarding difficulties. Members of the council’s housing & health committee heard that the protocol was developed to ensure that tenants with hoarding difficulties were responded to in a co-ordinated way.

Persimmon Homes has been ordered to stop carrying out extensive groundworks for a 300-home development in Kinross after it was revealed the firm didn’t have permission to do so. Contractors employed by the housebuilder have been digging up land west of Lathro Meadows adjacent to the A922 over the

Eleven more local authorities in Scotland have set their respective budgets for the upcoming year, four of which have opted for a voluntary freeze in Council Tax. Aberdeen City Council set its 2017/18 budget and outlined plans for the next phase of its transformation programme.

Councillor Dave Doogan (left) joins Neil McKay and Julie Cosgrove for sod cutting to launch the Muirton development in Perth The beginning of a development which will deliver over 200 new homes, around half of which will be affordable, was marked yesterday at a site in Perth.

Nimmo Avenue CCG (Scotland) Ltd has announced plans to begin work on three new social housing projects for Perth & Kinross Council from next month.