Residents in Perth and Kinross are set to face rising costs for using a series of council services next year.
The council has set out its proposed fees and charges for 2023/24 in various areas like childcare services, burials and the hire of sports facilities.
It comes after the council revealed it needs to find ways to plug a £31 million black hole in next year’s budget.
Here we look in full at the fees set to rise across the city.
Key council charges set to rise in 2023/24
Childcare services
Term-time kids’ clubs:
- One child: £10.00 (up from £9.70).
- Additional child: £9.50 (up from £9.20).
Holidays and in-service days:
- Up to five hours: £19.60 (up from £19).
- Up to seven hours: £21.90 (up from £21.25).
- Over seven hours: £24.20 (up from £23.50).
School meals
- Primary pupils: £2.20 (up from £2.15).
- Secondary pupils: £2.35 (up from £2.30).
- Adult meals: £3.80 (up from £3.70).
- Breakfast club: £2.05 (up from £2).
Care and support services
Local authority residential care:
- Per week: £1,009.66 (no change).
Staff meals:
- Breakfast: £1.68 (up from £1.63).
- Lunch: £3.36 (up from £3.27).
- Tea: £1.36 (up from £1.32).
- Snack: £0.92 (up from £0.90).
Hire of facilities
Perth football/rugby pitches:
Adult:
- Season 11-a-side: £573 (up from £556).
- Per game 11-a-side: £47 (up from £46).
- Season seven-a-side: £333 (up from £323).
- Per game seven-a-side £28 (up from £27).
Under-18s:
- Season 11-a-side: £239 (up from £232).
- Season seven-a-side: £143 (up from £139).
Outwith Perth football/rugby pitches:
Adult:
- Season 11-a-side: £437 (up from £424).
- Per game 11-a-side: £37 (up from £36).
Under 18s:
- Season 11-a-side: £216 (up from £210).
- Per game 11-a-side: £18 (up from £17).
- Season seven-a-side: £108 (up from £105).
Non-commercial park events:
- Bookings of up to 100 expected attendees remains free.
- Bookings of between 101 to 500 expected attendees: £63 (up from £61)
- Bookings of 1,000+ expected attendees: £125 (up from £121).
Junior astro turf per hour:
- One-third pitch: £30.90 (up from £30).
- Two-third pitch: £36.05 (up from £35).
- Full pitch: £51.50 (up from £50).
Adult astro turf per hour:
- One-third pitch: £36.05 (up from £35).
- Two third pitch: £46.34 (up from £45).
- Full pitch: £61.80 (up from £60).
Perth High community sports hub per hour:
Standard:
- Small meeting room: £10.30 (up from £10).
- Large hall: £20.60 (up from £20).
Standard junior:
- Small meeting room: £6.20 (up from £6).
- Large hall: £12.40 (up from £12).
Concession:
- Small meeting room: £8.25 (up from £8).
- Large hall: £16.50 (up from £16).
Concession junior (under 18):
- Small meeting room: £5.15 (up from £5).
- Large hall: £10.30 (up from £10).
George Duncan Athletics Arena:
- Pay and play – junior: £1.15 (up from £1.10).
- Pay and play – adult £2.40 (up from £2.30).
North Inch Golf Course
Full season ticket:
- Adult: £399 (up from £389).
- Senior/concession: £349 (up from £339).
- Youth (18-21-year-olds): £95 (up from £89).
- Intermediate (22-25-year-olds): £155 (up from £145).
- Young adult (26-29-year-olds): £249 (up from £239).
- Under-17s: £20 (no change).
Various other fees are set to rise (except for juniors) including:
- 17 months for the price of 12
- Summer 18-hole rounds
- Summer nine-hole rounds
- Summer six-hole rounds
- Winter rounds
Bereavement services
Purchase of memorial bench with plaque:
- New Glen Almond bench: £923 (up from £667).
- New Glen Clova bench: £1,151 (up from £939).
- Greenspace bench: £708 (up from £423).
- Phoenix recycled plastic bench: £842 (up from £667).
- Purchase of plaque for existing bench: £202 (up from £196).
Sale of lairs:
- Full/half/quarter lair – baby or young person (under 21) remains free.
- Full lair – adult (21 and over): £962 (up from £934).
- Half lair – adult: £481 (up from £467).
- Transfer of lair ownership: £40 (up from £39).
Interment fees:
- Young person remains free.
- Adult: £1,003 (up from £974).
- Cremated remains (casket burial): £232 (up from £225).
- Scattered ashes (under turf): £75 (up from £73).
Cremation:
- Young person remains free.
- Adult: £836 (up from £709).
- Direct cremation (8.45am or 9am/no service): £553 (down from £621).
- Scattering of ashes (service at Perth): £27 (up from £26).
- Scattering of ashes (service at external crematorium): £65 (up from £63).
- Scattering of ashes (under turf): £75 (up from £73).
- Extended service: £185 (up from £180).
Parking charges
Resident annual permits (Perth city only):
- Inner zone (on and within inner ring road): £267 (up from £254).
- Outer zone: £152 (up from £145).
Perth city parking:
Zone one – inner city cemtre:
- On-street parking (per hour): £1.60 (up from £1.30) – max 1 hour.
- Off-street parking (per hour): £1.40 (up from £1.30) – max 1 hour.
Zone two – city centre:
- On-street parking (per hour): £1.60 (up from £1.30) – max 4 hours.
- Off-street parking (per hour): £1.40 (up from £1.30) – max 4 hours.
Zone three – outer city centre (on street):
- One hour: £1 (up from £0.80).
- Two hours: £1.60 (up from £1.30).
- Three hours: £2.50 (up from £2.10).
- Four hours: £3.10 (up from £2.60).
- Six hours: £4.80 (up from £4).
- Up to 10 hours: £6.40 (up from £5.30).
Various other locations will see fees rise including:
- Perth city car parks
- Crieff town centre
- Blairgowrie town centre
- Pitlochry town centre
- Dunkeld town centre
What else is going up?
Various costs for services including skip hire, Perth Harbour fees, parking fines, hire of some school facilities, domestic waste uplift fees and rent at Wellbank House are also set to rise, as set out in new documents.
What won’t be changing?
Many charges are remaining the same for 2023/24.
These include the costs of:
- Dog fouling notices
- Smoking charges
- Litter charges
- Domestic recycling uplift
- Blue badges
- Domestic garden waste permits
