More than £24 million is to be invested in providing Perth and Kinross with two new primary schools.
Pupils should move into the replacement Kinross and Tulloch schools by August 2017 under plans revealed by the council.
Councillors have approved the investment to enable the project to move ahead, bringing to an end more than two years of turmoil.
It had been feared the two communities would be forced into an unseemly competition for funding after it emerged the council had money for just one replacement.
On October 10, both were given good news as the Scottish Government announced additional funding for Scotland’s Schools for the Future Programme.
Within that, the council was successful in securing two-thirds funding towards the replacement of both schools, which should take place within three years.
The Kinross site will allow the new-build school to be constructed next to the current one in a fashion similar to the project taking place at Oakbank Primary in Perth.
The existing school will then be demolished, with pitches and parking reinstated in its wake.
A tandem build will not be possible at Tulloch and pupils and staff may face some disruption during the build.
It appears likely pupils will be taught in temporary accommodation while construction takes place, though decanting to another school has not wholly been ruled out.
The two schools, along with Oakbank, are the last remaining examples of so-called CLASP schools within Perth and Kinross.
The prefabricated system of concrete construction was once widespread but has since been discredited due to widespread problems with water damage and the cost of repairs.
They have gradually been phased out across the country after relatively short lifespans and the investment of an estimated £11.8m on a new Tulloch Primary and £12.1m on Kinross will bring the construction method’s time to an end locally.
News that work on the new schools will now progress apace has been welcomed by Perth City North Councillor Dave Doogan, who said the Tulloch community had been fighting quietly but spiritedly for the replacement for some time.
“The council always shared the ambition of replacing both Tulloch and Kinross but that had to be reconciled with the finances to realise that,” he said.
“The increase in investment from the Scottish Government has been mirrored by ambitious financing from Perth and Kinross Council.
“When you put those together it represents yet another ambitious investment, topping £23m, in education in Perth and Kinross and I am very proud of that.”
Mr Doogan said the requirement for two new primary schools was “very clear” and said he had always believed that spending a lesser sum on refurbishment would be “money wasted”.
“This is an ageing and deteriorating building that is bursting at the seams with pupils and I am led to believe that Kinross is every bit as tired and full,” he said.
Mr Doogan said he had full confidence that the Tulloch project could be delivered with minimum disruption to teaching.
He also praised the “hard work, patience and understanding” of the Tulloch community and parent teacher council and the leadership of the school’s head teacher and her staff.
Full details of the two plans have yet to be formalised.
A Perth and Kinross Council spokeswoman said a plan of action for Tulloch Primary had yet to be formalised but added that the use of temporary classrooms was “by far” the most likely outcome.