Perth & Kinross

A plan to build 40 new houses for affordable rent on the site of a former Perth care home is to be discussed by councillors next week. Members of the Housing and Social Wellbeing Committee will hear that a review of the site at Beechgrove House has found that using the land for affordable housing is

A footbridge washed into the River Braan during Storm Babet was winched from the water on Friday onto ground owned by Forestry Land Scotland.

A new £4 million development of 24 council homes for affordable social rent has been completed in Methven. The development at Murrie Court and Roy Close is a mix of semi-detached, terraced homes and flats, providing high-quality accommodation for a wide range of tenants.

Scottish Ministers have overturned a decision by Perth and Kinross councillors to reject a quarry extension plan. Laird Aggregates had applied to expand its quarry on land immediately north of Marlee Quarry in Blairgowrie.

Architecture firm Aitken Turnbull has designed a modern, new-look church to blend seamlessly within the expansive Bertha Park development on the outskirts of Perth. Perth Presbytery formed a Mission Initiative to create a new type of church within Bertha Park to act as a place of worship and be a fo

A hospital in Perth, which specialises in mental health and dementia care, was successfully awarded a significant sum of £115,000 by Tayside Health Fund, NHS Tayside’s Charity, and an additional £40,000 from Paths for All to carry out ambitious renovations across two shared garden

Dunfermline-based Deanestor has been awarded another major contract in the education sector – a project worth over £3 million to fit out the new 1,600-place Perth High School for Robertson Construction.

The innovative Perth West development has been granted planning permission by Perth & Kinross Council, paving the way to over 1,000 new jobs for the area.

Progress on the third Local Development Plan (LDP3) for Perth and Kinross will be considered at the next meeting of the Environment, Infrastructure and Economic Development Committee on 1 November 2023.

James F Stephen Architects (JFSA) in partnership with Suzie Bridges Architects (SBA) have been selected through competition for a multi-million-pound transformation of Pitlochry Festival Theatre, as Phase 2 of the Theatre’s visionary capital project forges ahead. Backed by the Scottish Governm

A new bridge over the River Tay created by BAM Nuttall as part of the Cross Tay Link Road project will be named Destiny Bridge.

Disability charity Capability Scotland, which has ambitious plans to create a flagship £28 million complex-needs facility, has signed an exclusivity agreement for land at Bertha Park Village, delivered by home builder Springfield. The agreement sets out a joint responsibility to negotiate a de

A plan to convert a former Perth psychiatric hospital into flats has taken a step forward with the submission of an application for listed building consent.

Integrated engineering design, energy, and sustainability consultancy Hydrock has secured a pivotal role in the latest phase of the transformative redevelopment of Pitlochry Festival Theatre. Situated on the banks of the Tummel, and Scotland's largest of its kind, the cultural gem is renowned for it

Perth & Kinross Council (PKC) has become the first place in the world to use spiral-flow battery technology to reduce its carbon footprint. Designed, developed and manufactured by StorTera, an Edinburgh-based developer of intelligent energy storage solutions, the project aims to develop a protot