Perth & Kinross Council

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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