Perth & Kinross Council

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.

Significant investments in council houses in Perth and Kinross over recent years has seen the percentage of council houses achieving the Scottish Housing Quality Standard (SHQS) reach an all time high. A positive report on housing conditions will be considered by members of Perth & Kinross Counc

Ian Watt of Rae Place, Perth (left) with Ross Laidlaw from Keepmoat A £6.6 million Perth & Kinross Council investment aimed at eradicating fuel poverty has successfully installed heating systems to over 1,000 homes across the region.

Shared equity homes are currently available in a development at Castleton, Auchterarder Perth & Kinross Council has launched a shared equity home ownership scheme to help people get on the housing ladder, or to buy a house that better suits their needs.

Developers have submitted plans to build more than 200 homes in Perthshire, the Evening Telegraph has reported. Springfield Properties has lodged its proposal for 217 houses, a quarter of which will be affordable, to Perth and Kinross Council for the site at Glenalmond Road, Rattray, by Blairgowrie.

Regeneration development expert Urban Union is to begin work on a project to develop the Muirton area of Perth in partnership with Caledonia Housing Association and Fairfield Housing Co-operative. The development of 203 new houses - the first for the developer in Perth - will include 102 affordable