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Whether people agreed with the proposed Community Asset Transfer of Pitlochry Town Hall from the Pitlochry Common Good Fund to 'Pitlochry Town Hall' a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) which currently operates the property.

Pitlochry Town Hall SCIO was established to benefit the local community through the provision of recreational facilities and the advancement of education, arts, heritage, culture, science, and wider community development initiatives.  As is its right under Part 5 of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015, Pitlochry Town Hall SCIO submitted an asset transfer request to the Council to take ownership of the hall in the belief that community ownership will secure and support its long-term use for community benefit.

Pitlochry Town Hall SCIO requested that ownership of the hall was transferred to them for the price of £1. The discounted price reflected the social and community benefits that are anticipated to arise from the disposal, as well as planned capital investment by the charity to make accessibility and sustainability improvements to the hall.

A public consultation asking for the local community’s views ran for eight weeks from 17 June 2026.

Section 104 of the 2015 Act requires the Pitlochry Common Good Committee to have regard to the consultation responses in deciding whether to dispose of Pitlochry Town Hall.

A total of 193 responses were submitted via our Consultation Hub, of which 185 supported the disposal.

On 26 October 2026 Pitlochry Common Good Fund agreed to to the asset transfer request, and to to remove Pitlochry Town Hall from the Pitlochry Common Good. 

The committee also agreed to the disposal at £1 and on such further terms to be agreed by the Strategic Leads for Economy, Development & Planning and Legal & Governance.

We ran a consultation from May to June 2026 asking tenants about Housing Services and how you want us to spend your rent money.

A total of 437 tenants responded.

You can read a detailed summary of what tenants told us their priorities are.

Some feedback on the results were provided to tenants at a Tenant Drop-in event held on Thursday 26 June. 

The detailed results of this consultation will now be analysed. The feedback will be used to pull together several options for rent levels for 2027/28, reflecting what tenants told us they want to see investment in when it comes to their Housing Services.

Tenants will be asked to vote on these proposed rent level options between October and December 2026.

We asked for your views on the proposed lease of this Common Good building to a local business.

During the consultation process the proposed tenant informed the Council they had found alternative premises, and so their interest in 2 North Port was withdrawn.

The consultation was therefore retracted on 8 June 2026. Thank you to everyone who took part.

Whether we should adopt a Responsible Busking Code of Conduct for Perth city centre.

The proposed Code of Conduct aimed to support and encourage street entertainment while ensuring that busking activity does not cause nuisance, obstruction, or disturbance to businesses, residents, or visitors.

A total of 198 responses were received to the consultation, and 78% of people said they were in favour of the proposed Responsible Busking Code of Conduct.

A report was presented to a meeting of Perth and Kinross Council on 17 June 2026, and councillors agreed to adopt the proposed Responsible Busking Code of Conduct.

The Council owns the Navigate building, a two-storey office building with single-storey garage annex located on George Inn Lane within the Perth Central conservation area. The building is recognised as common good property and is held on the Perth Common Good Fund account. 

The two-storey northmost section of the Navigate building is occupied by the Council’s Navigate service. With the exception of a plant room and fire escape serving the operational part of the building, the two-storey middle section of the building has been unused for several years, other than for limited storage purposes, and it is not in an occupiable condition at present.

The single-storey southmost section of the building is a garage used formerly to house the Provost’s car; it has been vacant since 2024 when parking provision was relocated to Council Headquarters.

In December 2025, Councillors nominated Lock Terrace Ltd and its directors as the developer for the proposed ‘The Heiton’ hotel development at 1-5 High Street, following a due diligence review prompted by changes in the status of the previously preferred bidder. Planning permission for the development, subject to conditions, was also granted in November 2025.

The hotel development is expected to generate new employment opportunities, increase visitor footfall, and support surrounding businesses. Lock Terrace Ltd has advised that the successful conversion of 1-5 High Street into a hotel is dependent on housing the hotel’s laundry facility (for storage of linen and other hotel consumables) and staff welfare facilities (staff kitchen and dining area, toilets and showering facilities) within an ancillary property in close proximity to 1-5 High Street.

A vacant part of the Navigate building has been identified by the hotel developer as the preferred location for these facilities. Locating the laundry and staff welfare facilities within the buildings at 1-5 High Street instead would reduce the proposed hotel’s room count and have a negative impact on the scheme’s viability.

To support the ‘The Heiton’ hotel development at 1-5 High Street, officers recommended selling the southmost section and part of the lower storey of the middle section of the Navigate building to Lock Terrace Ltd, in order to facilitate their conversion into a laundry facility and staff welfare facilities.

Section 104 of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 requires the local authority to consult with the local community when it is planning to dispose of a common good property.

This consultation asked whether people agreed with the proposed sale of this Common Good property at market value, to Lock Terrace Ltd.

A total of 39 responses were submitted via the Council’s Consultation Hub, of which 35 were submitted by residents and former residents of Perth.

The consultation responses were published alongside a report to Perth Common Good Committee on 22 June 2026.

Perth Common Good Committee considered a report on the proposed disposal  of the property on 22 June 2026, along with responses to the consultation.

The Committee agreed to the disposal. The disposal will support the ‘The Heiton’ hotel development at 1-5 High Street by enabling the conversion of the property by the nominated developer into a laundry facility and staff welfare facilities.