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Coupar Angus Community Food Growing consultation
Community food growing offers an opportunity for communities to come together and create a project that provides fresh local produce to individuals and/or the community. Community food growing projects can also provide an opportunity to improve your physical and mental wellbeing as well as a place to meet other members of the community. Members of the community, including the 'Isla Gardeners' who manage the community garden on Caddam Road, have approached the Council with...
Rent Level Options for 2025/26
Each year, in partnership with our tenants, we review the rent levels we charge for the Housing Services we provide. These annual reviews are necessary to ensure that we continue to meet our duties to you as a landlord, respond to your priorities and maintain high levels of service delivery. For the seventh year we are consulting and engaging with you over the level of rent to be set for the next year - 2025/26. We want to give all tenants a voice in decisions that affect you, your...
Your Food Growing Needs
The aim of this survey is to let you know about the current community food growing provision within Perth and Kinross and to direct you to a suitable growing space. Please note that allotment sites across Perth and Kinross are managed by individual allotment associations which are run by groups of volunteers who manage the waiting lists, finances and day-to day running of the sites. Unlike other local authorities, we do not allocate allotment plots, this can only be done by the...
Draft Perth Air Quality Action Plan
The Perth Air Quality Action Plan (AQAP) was first published in 2009. Perth has changed significantly since this time, and many of the original actions in the Action Plan have been completed or significantly progressed . The Action Plan therefore needed a review and update to better address the current air quality situation in Perth City, including the introduction of a new suite of air quality improvement measures which we will focus on over the next 5 years ...
Forthcoming activities
Refurbishment of Tayside Crescent play area Aberfeldy
Perth and Kinross Council look after over 160 play areas across the region, from large facilities at our major parks to rural and local play areas right on your doorstep. Tayside Crescent, Aberfeldy play area has now come to the top of our list and in order to make improvements which suit everybody's needs, we're asking you to take part in our small survey and consultation. Here's Landscape Architect Nick Riley to tell you all about it...
Recently closed activities
Secondary Schools in Perth City
Why are we undertaking a review of secondary schools in Perth? We have invested in our secondary school buildings in Perth and Kinross that has included St John’s Academy at North Inch Community Campus, Bertha Park High School and the ongoing construction of the replacement Perth High School. We also recognise that while those replacements are in place, both Perth Academy and Perth Grammar School buildings are ageing, and the condition of these...
Pitlochry and Moulin Community Food Growing consultation
Community food growing offers an opportunity for communities to come together and create a project that provides fresh local produce to individuals and/or the community. It can also provide an opportunity to improve your physical and mental wellbeing as well as a place to meet other members of the community. During the development of the PKC Community Food Growing Strategy in 2021 some individuals from the Pitlochry and Moulin community expressed interest in starting a...
Election of Public Partner Service User Member Representative to Perth and Kinross Integration Joint Board
Perth and Kinross Integration Joint Board (IJB) would like to appoint two individuals who have experience of using community heath and/or social care services to join the Board. The role of ‘Service User Public Partner’ members is to bring a service user perspective to the work of the Perth and Kinross IJB in planning the future of health and social care services across Perth and Kinross. It is a voluntary unpaid role. We have several candidates, and we...
We Asked, You Said, We Did
Here are some of the issues we have consulted on and their outcomes. See all outcomes
We asked
As a result of the Food Growing Strategy 2021, which identified areas with a demand for community food growing, we asked what type of community food growing areas are needed, if any sites have been identified as suitable for this purpose and if the current community food growing provision provided by the Pitlochry Garden Share scheme satisfies the identified demand from 2021.
You said
We received 12 responses through the consultation hub and one response from the paper copies provided at the Atholl Centre. As their preferred site;
- 5 people requested an allotment site,
- 3 people requested a community garden,
- 2 people requested a community orchard and woodland,
- 1 person requested an urban farm,
- 1 person requested wheelchair accessible raised beds,
- 1 person did not specify
You said that the most important benefits of community food growing to you personally area are reducing the use of pesticides, better nutritional value and taste and increasing local food provision in the local community.
Four people already knew about the existing community food growing provision of the community garden run by the Pitlochry Garden Share organisation, four people were unaware of any other existing provision and five people did not specify.
We did
After analysing the responses we found that whilst there is demand for a community food growing area this demand is not sufficient enough to take forward a project at this time and we encourage those who are looking to becoming involved in food growing to visit the Pitlochry Garden Share organisation’s community garden on Manse Road.
We asked
Following an onsite consultation with the Friends of Legion Park in 2023, we produced a concept masterplan for the site including the play facilities. We then ran a further consultation from August to September 2024 asking for your views on the design.
You said
We received 94 responses through the consultation hub with a small number of others providing feedback through other means.
The responses were extremely positive overall, and raised a number of themes for us to consider in more detail as we develop the detailed design. These themes include the provision of sensory and inclusive play equipment, as well as accessibility and seating in the park. The consultation also touched on issues regarding grass management in line with PKC’s Grow Wild scheme and increasing tree planting in the park, and there appears to be a high level of support for incorporating these changes into the masterplan design. This will hopefully lead to a reduction in maintenance in the park as well as increasing biodiversity and adding aesthetic improvements to the park.
We did
The comments and feedback from the consultation are currently being discussed and the outcome of these discussions will inform the next stage of the design process, which will see the masterplan design amended to take the key themes into consideration.’
We asked
For your thoughts on the council’s approach to Nature Networks and Biodiversity Enhancement, and telling us your projects, nature rich sites and enhancement opportunities that could be part of a nature network.
You said
Please see the results section for a report on the responses.
We did
The information has assisted in developing interim biodiversity guidance and will inform our approach to nature networks in the coming months. A full review of Planning for Nature Guidance next year will also be informed by this.
We asked
We asked you to tell us what your priorities for rent spending were for 2025/26 across your Housing Services.
You said
Over 1,200 of our tenants responded, which is a record amount for this annual consultation.
You can view the results of the consultation below.
We did
The results were fed back to tenants who attended the Summer Tenants' Conference on June 27th 2024.
Further discussions were held at the event about the results and what services tenants want to see.
Your feedback will allow us to put together some rent level options for 2025/26 that will go out for consultation with tenants in November and December 2024. You will be able to vote for your preferred rent level during this consultation.
The results on the rent level consultation will be included in a report to the Housing and Social Wellbeing Committee in January 2025, where a final decision on 2025/26 rent levels will be made.
We asked
We asked the Alyth community about:
- the flood risk from the Alyth Burn and smaller watercourses (Doctor's and Johnshill Burns)
- the findings of the Alyth Natural Flood Management study
- other actions to raise awareness and improve community flood resilience
You said
Feedback was received during the community drop-in events and online consultation. A Q&A report has been produced addressing the comments received.
We did
The Councilwill now finalise the Alyth NFM study and report the conclusions to the next available Climate Change and Sustainability Committee. Thereafter, the Council will implement the recommendations of the reports (subject to funding and any statutory approvals). The Council will carry out further consultation with the community as proposals are further developed.