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Perth and Kinross Council's award-winning campaign to improve recycling rates is expanded

The Waste Services team’s ‘Stick to the Six’ campaign will now include households in Braco, Greenloaning, Auchterarder and Crieff despite previous criticisms from Perth residents over its strictness

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Plans to convert 19th century Perthshire farm buildings into homes now in limbo

Councillors granted listed building consent for work to be done on the protected buildings but refused the detailed plans for the development

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Perth and Kinross Conservative group leader calls for Boris Johnson to step down in the next few days

Highland ward councillor John Duff wants deputy prime minister Dominic Raab to take the helm on an interim basis

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Perth and Kinross Council faces “unprecedented” estimated funding gap of £24 million for 2023/24 budget

Councillors will be asked to make “significant” budget cuts and transform the way services are delivered as a result

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Perth MP backs Aviva's latest bid to build 77-metre high turbine in the city

Perth and North Perthshire representative Pete Wishart wrote to the local authority last month to support the insurance giant's latest planning application drawing particular attention to its green ambitions

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Perth and Kinross Council weighs up proposal to turn Rodney Centre into primary school annex

The plan was brought up during a meeting of the full council on Wednesday, where councillors agreed to Live Active Leisure (LAL) withdrawing services from the facility

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Parents across Perth and Kinross owe total bill of £20,000 for unpaid school meals

However, councillors last week agreed to write off the dinner debt along with other unrecovered payments

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Fatal fire at Perth flat highlights communication breakdown between council and fire service

There was a slight delay in Perth and Kinross Council being notified by emergency services of the incident where a 55-year-old man lost his life

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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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Council 'working hard' to attract new businesses to Perth after drop in footfall

The local authority believes developments such as the £26 million Perth City Hall project will help rejuvenate the area

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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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Building on proposed hotel site in Perth is judged to pose "a danger to the public"

The old Clachan Bar and Quality Cafe buildings on South Methven Street are the subject of planning applications to transform the site into a new four-storey resort

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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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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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Retrospective planning permission approved for CCTV cameras on rural path in Perthshire

The use of surveillance at Logiealmond Estate initially prompted concerns that it might put people off using the public footway

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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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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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Perth wind turbine plan draws criticism from nature body

NatureScot believes Aviva has picked "a poor location" to erect a 77 metre high turbine to power its office buildings at Pitheavlis

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Call for new Perth and Kinross councillors to be given access to WhatsApp on council-issued mobile phones

The local authority has blocked local representatives from using the messaging app

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New Perth bridge idea backed after critics question council funding for feasibility study

Perth and Kinross Council had agreed to pay up to £25,000 for a study to be conducted to assess the practicality of forming a new active travel route between Perth and Scone including a new bridge over the River Tay at the North Inch

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Councillors dispute panel's conclusion Perth and Kinross Council acted "appropriately" over Abernyte Primary School decision

A scrutiny review panel concluded the council had "strong legal grounds" to challenge the Scottish Government's actions

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Move to scrap crossing over A9 near Perth as part of Cross Tay Link Road project put under scrutiny at hearing

The local authority wants to stop up core path LUNC/124 short of where it currently crosses the A9 east of Redgorton House and west of Denmarkfield but a number of individuals and organisations have objected

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