Ambitious plans for a new Perth secondary school will be unveiled to the public next month.
Residents will get the chance to scrutinise the latest proposals for the 1,100-capacity Bertha Park school as part of a formal consultation exercise.
An official notice of intention to develop the school has now been lodged with Perth and Kinross Council planners.
Copies have also been sent to community councils at Auchtergaven, Earn, Dunning and Methven.
According to the tabled documents, a public meeting will be held at the city’s North Inch Community Campus in mid-November. The date and time for the event has yet to be confirmed.
Feedback will be used to draw up an application for full planning consent, which is likely to be submitted in the new year.
The school – which is a rare example of a brand new secondary rather than a replacement being built in Scotland – will have an additional support needs unit and two all-weather floodlit pitches, as well as a multi-use games area.
The new building will cost around £32.5 million. The council successfully secured £23 million of Scottish Government funds in July 2012. Later that year, the authority agreed to pay the remainder of the price out of its own budget.
Originally, a condition of the funding is that the new school must be up and running by the end of March 2018.
However, the opening date was postponed until 2019 after complaints from parents about the original plan to phase in pupils.
The design of the building was approved by councillors in August. A council spokeswoman said: “The design of the new building uses a simple deep plan approach to make effective use of the space within the building and maximise the ingress of natural light.”
The project is not part of a £128 million upgrade of school estates, which was agreed at council budget talks earlier this year.
This includes two new schools in the north of the city, as well as at the recently-revived Oudenarde estate near Bridge of Earn.
The ambitious schools plan is a £76m extension of the estates review and pledges replacement primaries at Pitlochry, Tulloch, Kinross and Alyth.
Meanwhile, the council is preparing to launch a review of all primaries and secondaries in an effort to bring rising revenue costs under control.
The initiative, part of Perth and Kinross Council’s five-year transformation programme, will look at the condition of school buildings, pupil numbers and occupancy rates.
According to a council report, several options will be considered include shared headships, catchment reviews and “rationalisation through closure.” The possibility of building new schools in areas of high demand will also be considered.
At the same time, the council is trying to shave £65 million from its budget over the next five years.
Teaching jobs and other services face the chop in a budget plan which was revised in the wake of the EU referendum.
