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The Latest Breaking News from Perth and Kinross Council

War in Ukraine impacting progress with Perth High School, council committee told

A lot of building materials come from Ukraine and there are issues with supplies and prices

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Perth and Kinross Council's contentious recycling bin campaign wins national accolade

The ‘Stick to the Six’ campaign clinched the silver award at the APSE (Association for Public Service Excellence) Striving for Excellence Awards in the waste and recycling category

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New Perth primary school still on target to open in 2023

Councillors were provided with an update on the progress of Riverside Primary School within Perth and Kinross Council's learning estate at a meeting this week

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Network Rail object to plan to convert old Perthshire station signal box into "quirky" holiday home

A company calling itself Murthly Signal Box Ltd after the boarded-up B-listed building it wishes to renovate applied to Perth and Kinross Council for consent to make the change two months ago

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Over 600 Perth and Kinross schoolkids have received counselling over the past two and half years

COVID funding has been used to support youngsters and families who were the most adversely affected by the pandemic

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Footfall in Perth city centre dropped to 10 per cent below national level

Perth and Kinross Council is supporting city centre businesses in an attempt to aid local economic recovery

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SNP-led Perth and Kinross Council will not introduce Workplace Parking Levy

The new leader of PKC has ruled out introducing the controversial scheme during the course of his five-year term

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Almost 300 Ukrainian refugees are being hosted by Perth and Kinross residents

Language support has been expanded in local schools and property and disclosure checks are being carried out

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Only three Perth and Kinross play parks have received improvement funding despite Scottish Government pledge

One PKC Conservative councillor has called on the SNP to fulfil its 2021 Holyrood manifesto promise to “renew every play park in Scotland”

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New battery storage facility at Coupar Angus given the green light

Councillors approved the amended proposals for the controversial plant at a meeting last week

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Perth and Kinross Council establishes committee to tackle climate change and protect biodiversity

The local authority for Big Tree Country has made a commitment to achieve zero carbon emissions by 2045

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Plans for the £12 million new Scottish Crannog Centre have been submitted to Perth and Kinross Council

The planning application is for the visitor attraction to move to a site on the opposite shore of Loch Tay

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Conservative group at Perth and Kinross Council expresses outrage at SNP choosing committee convener

Tory group leader John Duff said it was "shameful" and "disgraceful" the new administration got to select the person for the role tasked with scrutinising the local authority

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Perth and Kinross Council staff could take strike action over pay dispute

GMB Scotland senior organiser Keir Greenaway said unless COSLA "vastly improved" its two per cent pay rise offer "then industrial action looks inevitable"

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Perth and Kinross Council commits £700,000 to help those struggling with rising cost of living

The motion was tabled by the local authority's new SNP administration and Scottish Labour

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Perth and Kinross Council is believed to have appointed its youngest ever provost

On Wednesday councillors voted for Independent Highland Perthshire councillor Xander McDade (28) to helm the prestigious role

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Perth High School teacher struck off for completing her own students’ assessments

Natasha Sturrock admitted to the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) to passing off the National 4 history tests as her pupils’ work

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Ambitious solar farm proposal lodged for Perthshire town which could eventually power local primary school

Blackford Farms Ltd has applied to Perth and Kinross Council for permission to construct the large renewable energy development on the outskirts of Blackford

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SNP councillor Grant Laing looks set to become new leader of Perth and Kinross Council

All 40 ward members will meet for the first time since the local elections to determine the political structure of Perth and Kinross Council for the next five years

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Call for Strathearn to be granted independence and given its own distinct council

Local resident Roger Cartwright - who stood in the local elections as an independent candidate - would like to see the decentralisation of power from Perth and Kinross Council

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Questions raised over council contractor's agreement to clean Perth watercourse

BAM Nuttall has been tasked to clean the Lade in Perth to meet a requirement agreed through its contract for the Cross Tay Link Road project

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Council denies Perthshire shooting estate owners consent to build 'fairy tale' castle on their land

Rod and Sheila Flavell of Logiealmond Estate west of Harrietfield applied to Perth and Kinross Council in March for permission to knock down a disused shooting lodge house and erect a three storey high Scots Baronial style structure in its place

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Minority SNP administration to be formed in Perth and Kinross Council after no coalition arrangement

It is understood the proposal for the SNP to form a minority administration will go before councillors on May 25

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Provost of Perth and Kinross Council will “step into retirement” after local election exit

Dennis Melloy has served as a councillor for the Strathmore ward for the past 15 years

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Developers excited to restore "beautiful building" in Perth to its former glory

A lease agreement for 1-5 High Street was approved by 26 votes to nine as one of the final acts of the 2017-2022 group of Perth and Kinross councillors.

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