Agenda Document Pack - Licensing Committee - 08/06/2026
Perth and Kinross Council · 8 June 2026
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Ambition | Compassion | Integrity Our vision is for a Perth and Kinross where everyone can live life well, free from poverty and inequality Council Building 2 High Street Perth PH1 5PH 01/06/2026 A hybrid meeting of the Licensing Committee will be held in the Council Chamber on Monday, 08 June 2026 at 13:00. If you have any queries please contact Committee Services on (01738) 475000 or email Committee@pkc.gov.uk. THOMAS GLEN Chief Executive Those attending the meeting are requested to ensure that all notifications are silent on their device and other devices are in silent mode. Please note that the meeting will be broadcast online and recorded. Members: Bailie Mike Williamson (Convener) Councillor Iain MacPherson (Vice-Convener) Councillor Keith Allan Councillor Hugh Anderson Councillor Bob Brawn Bailie Rhona Brock Councillor Steven Carr Councillor Michelle Frampton Councillor Neil Freshwater Councillor Ken Harvey Councillor Carol Mair Councillor Willie Robertson Councillor Alan Watt Page 1 of 68
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Licensing Committee Monday, 08 June 2026 AGENDA MEMBERS ARE REMINDED OF THEIR OBLIGATION TO DECLARE ANY FINANCIAL OR NON-FINANCIAL INTEREST WHICH THEY MAY HAVE IN ANY ITEM ON THIS AGENDA IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE COUNCILLORS’ CODE OF CONDUCT. 1 WELCOME AND APOLOGIES 2 DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST 3 RENEWAL OF PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT LICENCE Report by Strategic Lead - Legal and Governance (copy herewith 26/164) 5 - 68 Page 3 of 68
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PERTH AND KINROSS COUNCIL – LICENSING COMMITTEE 8 JUNE 2026 REPORT BY STRATEGIC LEAD - LEGAL AND GOVERNANCE TYPE OF APPLICATION Renewal of a Public Entertainment Licence APPLICANT Heartland Festival Ltd, 18 Duke of Edinburgh Drive, Pitlochry PH16 5LU PREMISES Pitlochry Recreation Ground, Ferry Road, Pitlochry PH16 5DZ THE APPLICATION Heartland Festival Ltd has applied for a three-year Public Entertainment Licence to hold a music festival at Pitlochry Recreation Ground, from 26-28 June 2026. The proposed event is an outdoor music festival with a maximum of 8000 attendees per day. The site will comprise the main arena, and car parking and will incorporate one bar outlet and food stalls. There will also be a funfair comprising 1 Ferris wheel, 1 Twister and bouncy castles. The proposed operating times for the event, including the car park and main arena, are set out in the licensing conditions attached as Appendix 1. The conditions have been updated to include the 2026 event dates and a change in the maximum number of attendees from 9000 to 8000. The event organisers have actively participated in the Safety Advisory Group process, attending meetings on 16 April 2026 and 5 May 2026. Through submission of supporting safety and management plans, all relevant agencies have had an opportunity to review and consider those plans prior to each meeting and provide feedback and comments on those submissions. The event organisers continue to engage with partner agencies as required. An on-site visit has been scheduled for the day prior to the event, providing an opportunity for any interested agencies to attend the site alongside the event organisers. The licensing conditions attached as Appendix 1 require the production of a Safety Management Plan before 8 June 2026 which will address the key issues to ensure a safe event. The details of the safety management plan are included in Table 1 of the licensing conditions. Letters and emails of objection and support are attached as Appendix 2 and comprise: - 1 letter of objection - 1 email of objection - 8 emails of support; and - 1 letter of support. Appendix 3 comprises a summary of feedback received from Perth and Kinross Council departments referenced in points raised in the letter of objection. 26/164 3 Page 5 of 68
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LEGAL POSITION The Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 provides grounds for the refusal of a public entertainment licence. Any decision to refuse a public entertainment licence must be relevant to one or more of the following grounds of refusal as detailed in the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982. A licensing authority must grant the application unless one of the grounds of refusal exists. If, in the opinion of the Committee, a ground of refusal exists then the application must be refused. The grounds for refusal are: - The activity to which the licence relates would be managed by or carried on for the benefit of a person, other than the applicant, who would be refused such a licence if they made the application. Where the licence relates to an activity consisting of or including the use of premises, those premises are not suitable or convenient for the conduct of the activity having regard to: the location, character or condition of the premises, vehicle or vessel; the nature and extent of the proposed activity; the kind of persons likely to be in the premises, vehicle or vessel; the possibility of undue public nuisance, public order or public safety; or there is other good reason for refusing the application. In deciding whether or not to grant or renew a licence, the Council will consider each application on its own merits and will take into account the following: any Objections or Representations any other relevant considerations The Head of Legal and Governance Service has delegated powers under the Council’s Scheme of Administration to suspend the licence in terms of paragraph 12, Schedule 1 of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 where the carrying on of the activity to which the licence relates has caused or is likely to cause undue public nuisance, a threat to public order or public safety. Therefore, if there is any breach of the licensing condition prior to the event that could have an adverse impact on public safety, this would be reported to the Head of Legal and Page 6 of 68
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Governance Service who would decide whether the licence should be suspended. the location, character or condition of the premises, vehicle or vessel; the nature and extent of the proposed activity; the kind of persons likely to be in the premises, vehicle or vessel; the possibility of undue public nuisance, public order or public safety; or there is other good reason for refusing the application. In deciding whether or not to grant or renew a licence, the Council will consider each application on its own merits and will take into account the following: any Objections or Representations any other relevant considerations The Head of Legal and Governance Service has delegated powers under the Council’s Scheme of Administration to suspend the licence in terms of paragraph 12, Schedule 1 of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 where the carrying on of the activity to which the licence relates has caused or is likely to cause undue public nuisance, a threat to public order or public safety. Therefore, if there is any breach of the licensing condition prior to the event that could have an adverse impact on public safety, this would be reported to the Head of Legal and Governance Service who would decide whether the licence should be suspended. OPTIONS The Committee needs to consider whether: the objection received relates to the activity of a Public Entertainment Licence. to amend the licensing conditions conditions or amend the draft conditions in Appendix 1. Thereafter the options open to the Committee are to: (a) grant the application (b) grant the application a shorter period of time. (c) grant the application with amended conditions (d) refuse the application. Page 7 of 68
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PROCEDURE Ask the applicant to provide information about the event Identify parties. Consider any preliminary issues Members of the public speak to their objections. Committee asks any questions to the objectors. Applicant makes submission. Committee asks any questions of the applicant. Objector sums up. Applicant sums up. Committee makes decision. Page 8 of 68
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1 Appendix 1 DRAFT CONDITIONS FOR THE HEARTLAND MUSIC FESTIVAL AT PITLOCHRY RECREATION GROUND, PITLOCHRY, PERTHSHIRE 3 Page 9 of 68
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1 1. PLANNING AND ORGANISATION 1.1 These conditions are attached to the Public Entertainment Licence issued in terms of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 to ensure the Health, Safety, and Welfare of patrons, artists, crew, staff on site, and the wellbeing of the surrounding community. 1.2 The Licence Holder shall be fully conversant with the publication produced by The Health and Safety Executive “The Event Safety Guide – A Guide to Health, Safety, and Welfare at Music and Similar Events (HSG 195)”, the Purple Guide to Health, Safety and Welfare at Music and Other Events. All Fire Risk Assessments should comply with the Fire Scotland Act (2005) and Fire Scotland Regulations (2006). The Licence Holder shall at all times follow the guidance detailed therein unless subject to more specific requirements imposed by the Licence or imposed by virtue of any other enactment. 1.3 The Licence Holder shall have a primary and continuing obligation and responsibility to ensure the safety and health of all persons on the licensed site, both in normal and emergency situations, and shall take all necessary precautions to fulfill that obligation. 1.4 The granting of the Licence does not absolve the Licence Holder of any obligations he may have under other enactments and in particular the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. 1.5 The Licence Holder shall take all necessary steps to inform any contractor, promoter, performer, or other person connected with, or involved with, the organisation of the event, of these conditions. It is the responsibility of the Licence Holder to ensure that any contractor, promoter, performer, or other person connected with the event does not breach, permit, or contribute to any breach of any term, condition, or restriction of this licence before, during, or after the event. 1.6 Except where otherwise stated all parts of the general Licence shall apply in respect of the car park. 1.7 The Licence Holder shall provide a copy of a Risk Assessment survey to the Head of Legal Services (and such other officers as may be required) regarding the entire site not less than 4 weeks prior to the commencement of the event. 1.8 All officers of public authorities acting in the course of their duties and either in uniform or with the appropriate ID from that Authority together with an event pass, shall be permitted to enter the site or any part thereof at any time prior to, during or after the event for the purposes of inspection. They shall also be allowed to use such access or egress gates as are necessary if any urgent response is required. 1.9 The Licence Holder shall reach an agreement with all public authorities, including Police Scotland and Fire Scotland, prior to the event as to the Page 10 of 68
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2 reimbursement of costs incurred by the bodies in connection with duties undertaken in relation to the event and will include costs incurred, staff overtime, subsistence, and transport. 1.10 The Licence Holder shall reach an agreement with Police Scotland for such numbers of Police Officers to undertake duties in relation to the event as the Chief Constable considers necessary for securing the safety of persons present on the site or progressing to or from the site. 1.11 The Licence Holder shall be capable of being contacted by the Licensing Authority and Emergency Services throughout the duration of the event and 3 hours prior to the event. The Licence Holder shall always establish and maintain a communications link with the Emergency Services during the event and agree in writing with the Licensing Authority and Emergency Services a clear and effective system of communication, not later than 7 days prior to the commencement of the event. 1.12 The Licence Holder shall nominate specified staff to be available throughout the event to receive and respond to the requirements and notifications of any public authority. The Licence Holder shall appoint a suitably qualified and experienced person to act as the Event Safety Coordinator who will be responsible for:- i. Liaising with sub-contractors to be employed at the venue to ascertain their competence. ii. Assisting the Licensing Authority in the inspection of the venue before and during the event and in particular to meet with the Licensing Authority at specific times as detailed in Table 2. iii. Assisting the Licensing Authority in the inspection of all structures and electrical services at the venue. iv. Obtaining and checking all relevant risk assessments, safety policies, hand-over documentation, and Safety Certificates for submission to the Licensing Authority by the specified time. v. Taking appropriate steps to ensure that any unsafe systems of work or the use of any unsafe equipment that is observed is halted until remedial action is taken. The Licence Holder’s own risk assessment. vi. Liaising with representatives of the licensing authority, emergency services and other involved agencies. 1.13 The Licence Holder will:- i. with the assistance of the relevant agencies detailed in Table 1 below, prepare a Safety Management Plan to include the activities detailed in Table 1 and all other relevant provisions to ensure the safety of the event, ensure that the Safety Management Plan is completed and agreed by all the relevant agencies involved in their preparation by 8 June 2026 comply with all duties reasonably placed upon them by the Safety Management Plan. Page 11 of 68
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3 Table 1 Relevant Agencies Activities Covered Perth and Kinross Council Scottish Fire and Rescue Service Scottish Ambulance Service NHS Tayside Police Scotland • Crowd Safety and management. • Policing • Security within and around the venue • Preparing for contingencies Perth and Kinross Council – Roads Authority Scottish Fire and Rescue Service Scottish Ambulance Service • Travel & Transport arrangements Scottish Ambulance Service NHS Tayside Perth and Kinross Council • Medical provision • Public Health • Food Safety • Health and Safety at Work including fire safety in concessions. • Welfare and Advice • Water Safety Perth and Kinross Council • Music • PA Systems Perth and Kinross Council • Fire Safety • Building Standards • Safety and Structures • Disability Access Page 12 of 68
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4 1.14 The Licence Holder will obtain the necessary alcohol licence in terms of the Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005 with regard to the sale and supply of alcohol. 2. The Site 2.1 The Licence Holder or nominated representative shall be in charge and be present on the licensed site at all times members of the public are present. 2.2 The site comprises the area of ground delineated in the site map, which shall include the car parking area. 2.3 There shall be an on-site inspection of all facilities to be provided under the Licence Conditions at the times specified in Table 2. 2.4 Not less than 28 days prior to the commencement of the event, the Licence Holder shall provide to Fire Scotland, Police Scotland, and the Licensing Authority such numbers of sets of “Agreed Maps” in the appropriate grid format as they may require. The “Agreed” shall clearly show all parts of the site, including the areas used for car parking, all access and egress points (including emergency access and egress points), all emergency vehicle rendezvous points, on-site access roads, and fire points. The site boundary shall be clearly defined in the plan. 2.5 The Licence Holder will ensure that all facilities on site are adequately illuminated at night including information points, access routes from the car park, gates, and thoroughfares where hazards exist. Provision will be made for backup lighting in the event of failure. 2.6 Times of opening and musical entertainment in the arena is detailed in Table 3. 3. Crowd Management 3.1 The total attendance including ticket holders and guests during the whole period of the event should not exceed 9,000 on any day. 3.2 Admission shall be by ticket or by artist, crew, trader, or guest pass. The total ticket sales during the whole period of the event shall be as detailed in Table 4. Subject to written agreement with the Licensing Authority Notwithstanding this, the number to be agreed in advance with the Licensing Authority will not result in the occupant capacity specified in Condition 3.1 above being exceeded. The facilities required and means of escape will reflect any agreed increases in attendance. 3.3 No camping will be permitted in any fields used for the parking of vehicles. Page 13 of 68
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5 4. Accommodation 4.1 The Licence Holder shall provide to the satisfaction of the Licensing Authority and Emergency Services a suitably equipped Emergency Liaison Centre to accommodate the representatives of the Emergency Services and Perth and Kinross Council responsible for the implementation of the Emergency Plan which meets with the appropriate requirements. 5. Insurance 5.1 The Licence Holder shall maintain in force at all times during the period of the Public Entertainment Licence Public Liability Insurance in the amount of £10,000,000 for any one occurrence in respect of the site and Employer’s Liability Insurance with a minimum Indemnity Limit of £10,000,000 any one occurrence. 5.2 The policy should include Legal Liability for the actions/negligence of the Licence Holder’s sub-contractors. 5.3 The policy shall be exhibited to the Licensing Authority no later than 7 days prior to the commencement of the event. 5.4 The Head of Legal and Governance Services, in consultation with the Convenor of the Licensing Committee, will finalise any necessary adjustments to the licensing conditions prior to the 2025 event. 6. Noise 6.1 The Licence Holder shall ensure that the music noise level shall not exceed 65dBLAeq over any 15-minute period during the performance, rehearsal or sound check between the hours of 10.00 to 23.00, when measured outside the window of any dwelling house or other noise-sensitive premises. 6.2 The Licence Holder shall nominate a contact person (or persons) who shall be present during the entire event to control noise levels and an undertaking given that should noise nuisance conditions occur; levels can be suitably adjusted on the request of an Officer from the Environmental Health Team or Police Officer. 7. DEFAULT 7.1 The Chief Constable, the Chief Fire Officer, the Senior Licensing Authority Officer, and the NHS Tayside Consultant in Public Health Medicine, or their respective authorised representative, shall be entitled to order termination of the event should the interests of the public safety so require. Without prejudice to the foregoing, any major default of these licensing conditions shall entitle the above-named persons to order termination of the event. In this connection “termination” may include a temporary suspension of whatever period the foregoing Officers may reasonably determine. Any such actions should be taken only following consultation with all public authorities and the Event Manager, before ordering such action. Page 14 of 68
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6 8. COMMUNICATIONS 8.1 The Licence Holder shall provide a public address system which shall:- i. be capable of broadcasting information in the event of an emergency. ii. be capable of overriding any other system within the site, including live entertainment equipment. iii. be clearly audible throughout the arena. iv. be controlled from a central position approved by the Licensing Authority and Emergency Services. Access to the central position will be available at all times to the Licensing Authority and Emergency Services. v. have a power supply which will ensure continuous operation of the system in the event of the failure of the main electricity supply. vi. prior to the admission of the public onto the site all systems used for broadcasting information in the event of such an emergency shall be tested. Records of such tests shall be made available to Fire Scotland for verification. 9. INFLATABLES 9.1 The licence holder shall ensure any inflatable equipment complies with British Standard BS EN 14960, have PIPA tag or an ADiPs declaration of compliance and be installed and operated in accordance with the Health and Safety Executive’s Bouncy castle and other play inflatables: safety advice. TABLE 2 Car Park Inspection Meeting Times: Friday 26 June 2026 Prior to the carpark opening at 15.00 Saturday 27 June 2026 Prior to the carpark opening at 10.30 Sunday 28 June 2026 Prior to the carpark opening at 10.30 Arena Inspection Meeting Times: Friday 26 June 2026 Prior to the arena opening at 15.30 Saturday 27 June 2026 Prior to the arena opening at 11.00 Sunday 28 June 2026 Prior to the arena opening at 12.00 TABLE 3 Parking Areas may be open as follows: Friday 26 June 2026 15.00 to 23.00 Saturday 27 June 2026 10.30 am to 23.00 Sunday 28 June 2026 10.30 am to 23.00. Page 15 of 68
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7 The Arena may open to the public as follows: Friday 26 June 2026 15.30 until 22.45 Saturday 27 June 2026 11.00 until 22:45 Sunday 28 June 2026 12:00 noon until 22:45 Amplified Musical may operate as follows: Friday 26 June 2026 Saturday 27 June 2026 11:00 until 22:15 Sunday 28 June 2026 12:00 noon until 22:15 TABLE 4 Ticket Sales 2026 Friday 26 June 2026 6000 Saturday 27 June 2026 8000 Sunday 28 June 2026 8000 Page 16 of 68
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Mr. David Jegier, Parkview, Ferry Road, Pitlochry, PH16 5DD 30/01/26 To the Head of Legal Governance Services I revoked my original objection previously submitted on 16/01/26. I would like this revised objection document, in its entirety, to be accepted in its place due to additional information. Precis The Heartland Festival does not comply with and contravenes multiple processes, guidelines and legislations applicable to its licensing and operation and to the site itself; these are fully argued, documented and referenced in the accompanying document but are summarised here: 1. Non-compliance with the licensing application process. The Site Notice shows the date of application as 07/01/26 but itself was not publicly displayed until eight days afterwards on 15/01/26 2. Failure to as yet submit a separate licensing and hire application for an additional third evening event “An Evening With…” advertised, promoted and ticketed as a “separate event” to Heartland itself. 3. The event does not meet nor comply with Para. 15.5 of PKC Community Greenspace CONDITIONS OF HIRE/USE in regard to not exceeding the required Music Noise Levels (MNL) 4. Non application of the Noise Council Code of Practice on Environmental Noise from Concerts 1995, or any equivalent replacement guidelines to limit disturbance to the surrounding community. 5. Disregard of and Non-Compliance with PKC 'Safe and Legal Events' guidance on ‘Venue Suitability” 6. Blocking of access to a core footpath without obtaining or displaying a Section 11 exemption or modification order – and originally intending that to be for longer than 5 days which would itself have required public consultation and possible consideration by Scottish Ministers 7. Blocking of access to children’s playground/car-park/pavilion despite being outwith the approved site boundary 8. Failure to mitigate detrimental impact of noise on neighbours, in opposition to the Agent of Change Principle 9. Non-compliance with para. 13.9 of PKC’s ‘Community Greenspace CONDITIONS OF HIRE/USE’ due to contraventions of environmental legislations, further resulting in potential offences under applicable wildlife legislations. 10. Failure to require or undertake a Habitat Regulations Assessment or any other form of ecological or environmental assessment of the site despite it adjoining the Tay Special Area of Conservation, with the SAC and surrounding habitat hosting legally protected species 11. Licensing of the event on this site could also be considered a breach of PKC’s statutory duty to protect and conserve biodiversity under the Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004 and licensing of the event would further be in opposition to Objective 6 of the government’s ‘Scottish Biodiversity Strategy and delivery plan 2024 - 2030’ 12. Licensing approval can also be viewed to be in further contradiction to the Scottish government National Events Strategy, “Developing the Industry”, Part 3: "Supporting the protection and considerate enjoyment of Scotland’s natural and cultural heritage". 13. Operation of this event on this site is also further contrary to all of PKC's and Scottish government climate action/net zero/ green economy/transport plans and aspirations national events strategy, event guidance, and Pitlochry Community Action Trust (PCAT) statements about environment & sustainability 14. Contravention of PKC 'Safe and Legal Events' Guidance. Step1. Section 28. Parking Arrangements - On and Off-Street. The 2026 event proposes to take place without supplying any dedicated parking whatsoever for previously advertised 2,500 vehicles. 3 Page 17 of 68
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Please find herewith our objections to the 2026 Public Entertainment License application for the Heartland Festival Pitlochry and a now additional event on the preceding Friday evening. My submission is made in reference to grounds for objection under the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 and with direct referral to existing governing legislation, policy, and guidances. For the referenced reasons here submitted, it has not been shown from the outset that this event has met or can ever meet the conditions of hire and licensing applicable to the Pitlochry Recreation Ground site; PKC was therefore wrong to previously approve both. The length of this submission is unfortunate, but that is entirely due to the multiple transgressions identified in the licensing and operation of this event. ❖ “A Site Notice must be displayed at the premises or site for a continuous period of 21 days, in a position where it can be easily read, from the date of submission of your application. This allows members of the public to object to the application should they wish. Once the 21-day period has lapsed, you must remove the Site Notice and complete and return the Compliance Notice to the Licensing Department.”1 In immediate disregard of process and compliance, the Site Notice went on display on the recreation ground notice board on 15/01/2026 but it is showing the date of application submission as 07/01/2026 eight days prior; nor was it removed after 21 days of the submission date as also required. I pass this notice board outside my home twice a day and have taken a photograph of it every Monday since 11/08/25 for precisely this reason. ❖ An additional third event day is being billed as ‘An Evening With…’ on 26/06/26. It is advertised on the Heartland website2 as being “separate from the Heartland Festival 2026” and ticketed for separately, yet no separate Site Notice has been displayed nor therefore any separate licence application yet submitted for that event (if so required). 12/01/2026 15/01/2026 30/01/2026 1 https://www.pkc.gov.uk/media/54077/Guidance-for-Public-Entertainment- Licence/pdf/Public_Entertainment_Licence.pdf?m=1748610973970 2 https://heartlandfestival.co.uk/friday-night-an-evening-with/ Page 18 of 68
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1. Objection: Unsuitable Location/Inability to meet Conditions/Nature & Extent/Impact/Undue Nuisance - Noise & Residents: In previous comments made to the media3 and I believe to the Licensing Committee, it has been stated that the Organiser’s ‘dream' is for Heartland to “become a mini-Glastonbury” and the belief that “If you were going to design a park area to put a festival on, the Recreation Ground is the perfect location.” Furthermore, the Organiser claims to "...have done everything I possibly can to minimise disturbance to the local community because I am part of that local community" while conflictingly also stating to the media recently that the event is now “the third biggest music festival in Scotland” and furthermore, being “eager to build on that top three slot.”4. For your information, No.1 is Trnsmt on Glasgow Green (136 acres) and No.2 is Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival held on Belladrum country estate (1,150 acres). Meanwhile, the referenced Glastonbury festival is held on and surrounded by 1,500 acres of privately owned agricultural land. The nearest habitation is a village which is 1/3rd of the population size of Pitlochry and approximately 1Km distant from the main stage. The town of Glastonbury itself is approximately 10Km distant to the festival site. 1.1 The Pitlochry recreation ground is a community greenspace. The event boundary, which encapsulates the entirety of the site other than the playground, measures only some 200m x 140m (6.9 acres). • The site is 5x smaller than the next smallest regional festival site - Bonfest, Kirriemuir, with an outdoor stage operating on 34 agricultural acres. The nearest dwelling there is also more than 5x further away from the front of stage than in Pitlochry. • The site is 11x smaller than South Inch, Perth, also a PKC community greenspace on which Heartland intends to hold a new festival in 2026. The nearest dwellings will be more than 3x further away from the front of stage (if in same position as previously held festival) as Heartland in Pitlochry yet the same Music Noise Limit level as in Pitlochry will apply. • The Pitlochry site is in the centre of a residential area surrounded by family homes. A protected Special Area of Conservation directly adjoins it and immediately surrounding habitat and gardens host legally protected species. A 2026 event in Pitlochry would take place on a site entirely encircled: the recreation ground is immediately bordered on three sides by our closely adjoining dwellings and now a new supermarket on the 4th side. No other regional event site comparison, or indeed ANY I can find in Scotland of this type, size and duration takes part on or is currently licensed for a site remotely like Pitlochry5. 3 https://news.stv.tv/east-central/heartland-festival-organiser-hopes-to-become-mini-glastonbury-for-scotland 4 https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/5361088/pitlochry-heartland-music-festival-success/ 5 See Attachment 1 Page 19 of 68
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1.2 Approximately 96 dwellings and a hotel surround the recreation ground inside only a 300m radius of the event sound deck from which the sound level is set. The event is therefore without question closely adjoined by - and it impacts upon – noise-sensitive dwellings & premises. • The closest dwelling to the front of the sound deck (on Dundarach Gardens) is only some 118m6 and our home is approximately 175m in unobstructed direct line - and directly overlooking the park as multiple homes do. In comparison, the closest dwelling to the front of stage of any other current regional event of this type is approximately 420m, or more than 3.5x as distant. Residents are therefore subjected to a weekend of amplified pop/rock music7 (wholly unlike other events historically held on the site) at a sound level so clearly above the licensed limit and resonating throughout the property it is impossible to normally use our home or any of our garden. Added to by a wholly inappropriate site plan we were compelled to leave our home during both days of the ‘25 event having already been subjected to the 2024 event. As such, the event unreasonably, substantially and quite definitely interferes with the enjoyment of our property - “plus quam tolerabile” in Scottish law - and thereby creates any or all of a public/private/statutory nuisance in contravention of PKC licensing objectives of the Licensing (Scotland) Act 20058. Multiple neighbours have also expressed to me that they also leave their homes for noise reason. 1.3 Failure to Meet or Comply with the MNL in Conditions of Hire/Use and the Licensing Conditions Para. 15.5 of PKC Community Greenspace CONDITIONS OF HIRE/USE9 requires: “In terms of noise the Hirer shall ensure that the music noise level shall not exceed 65dBLAeq over any 15-minute period during any performance, rehearsal or sound check when measured outside the window of any dwelling house or other noise sensitive premises…” and that is again a stipulation within the event license conditions (draft) at para 610. Levels not exceeding 70-75dB at 63Hz and 125Hz (i.e. Bass) are also required. i) I had a telephone conversation with Ms. Dawn Stewart, PKC Environmental Health Officer (EHO), on 14/10/25, at 13:30, where she kindly sought to answer my previously emailed questions to the Environmental Health (EH) team11. From that call, Ms. Stewart’s answers confirmed to me that: a) Despite a reasonable public assumption that the event, first and foremost, would have provided PKC with supporting evidence - and/or PKC would have required - that an intended event of this type on 6 See Attachment 2. 7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vow4Y2uIDco 8 Microsoft Word - Licensing Policy Statement 2023 2028 Approved 2.docx 9 https://www.pkc.gov.uk/media/43655/Greenspace-conditions-of- hire/pdf/GREENSPACE_CONDITIONS_OF_HIRE_JAN_20191.pdf?m=636860918906070000 10 https://perth-and-kinross.cmis.uk.com/Perth-and- kinross/Document.ashx?czJKcaeAi5tUFL1DTL2UE4zNRBcoShgo=A7H%2b0ItrbFWRJmDe6Nlx3QJYcwgkMH%2bFhSmg1P6aX7c0DPU% 2bey%2bFrw%3d%3d&rUzwRPf%2bZ3zd4E7Ikn8Lyw%3d%3d=pwRE6AGJFLDNlh225F5QMaQWCtPHwdhUfCZ%2fLUQzgA2uL5jNRG4j dQ%3d%3d&mCTIbCubSFfXsDGW9IXnlg%3d%3d=hFflUdN3100%3d&kCx1AnS9%2fpWZQ40DXFvdEw%3d%3d=hFflUdN3100%25%20 3d&uJovDxwdjMPoYv%2bAJvYtyA%3d%3d=ctNJFf55vVA%3d&FgPlIEJYlotS%2bYGoBi5olA%3d%3d=NHdURQburHA%3d&d9Qjj0ag1P d993jsyOJqFvmyB7X0CSQK=ctNJFf55vVA%3d&WGewmoAfeNR9xqBux0r1Q8Za60lavYmz=ctNJFf55vVA%3d&WGewmoAfeNQ16B2M HuCpMRKZMwaG1PaO=ctNJFf55vVA%3d 11 See Attachment 3 Page 20 of 68
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this site could meet and comply with the sound levels required by the license and Conditions of Hire/Use, that is not the case at all and has in fact not happened. b) The Organiser has not at any prior point involved a qualified independent Noise Consultant to undertake pre-event noise modelling, noise mapping or noise impact assessment which would have identified if the event was initially viable on this site from a sound limit perspective. Nor has PKC required that information when assessing and approving the hire/use and license. From inception, the Organiser and PKC thereby wholly failed to identify, consider, or assess noise impact on all or indeed ANY noise sensitive dwellings or premises, despite that being a key component in meeting the license’s Music Noise Levels (MNL) to begin with and a qualifying requirement of PKC’s Conditions of Hire/Use. c) Previous email correspondence I received from Mr D Stubbs12 (PKC Greenspace Coordinator - Communities) provided information of the event timings from the event’s Noise Management Plan. None of the pre-event audio system and stage sound tests themselves were to exceed 65dB(A). However, Ms. Stewart stated that PKC EH somehow agreed a sound deck limit of 90dB(A) for 2025 via “recorded sound tracks before the event started”. In conjunction with the absence of any prior noise modelling etc, the question has to be asked how a sound limit of 90dB(A) or otherwise could therefore have been established? This should have required at least one period of 15 min continuous sound (but above 65dB as the event timings officially limited it to) being measured specifically at the windows of (multiple) noise sensitive dwellings surrounding the site to ensure ANY sound level set at the sound deck was compliant – and with the most obvious starting point being the closest dwellings; that testing admittedly again did not take place, neither by the Organiser or PKC EH prior to the 2024 and 2025 events commencing. d) It has also been previously stated to me (in email communication with Mr. Rankine (PKC LSO) that it was again Environment Health, not the Organiser, who had reportedly conducted sound monitoring during the ‘24/’25 events “at various locations including the ‘site boundary”. EH were also quoted in the media claiming “There were no breaches (of the MNL)”. In my case, the site boundary (i.e. the recreation ground) adjoins my front garden hedge and is only 14 meters from my windows. No MNL compliance testing whatsoever was conducted at my windows nor on my property in general. Moreover, as stated to me by Ms. Stewart, neither the Organiser nor PKC EH undertook any sound propagation tests whatsoever during both events at the windows of any dwellings, particularly those closest to the noise source, despite compliance with that measure being integral to meeting licensing and hire conditions. 12 See Attachment 4 Page 21 of 68
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Factually therefore, Heartland did not at event conception nor during planning, set-up, or in operation, show or prove it can meet or has met the MNL required. The specific test to measure compliance was not at any time undertaken by the Organiser or PKC EH. ii.) Notably, a 65dB(A) sound level is exampled in Appendix 2 of PKC’s ‘Licensing Board Policy With Regards to Noise - Environmental Health Review’ as comparable to being only 5dB louder than that of a typical office or restaurant environment (i.e. 60 dB(A)13. The Scottish government example of 60 db(A) is that of a normal conversation heard at 1m. a) The sound deck for Heartland was approximately 25 meters in front of the main stage14. With a claimed event sound level of 90dB(A), the use of a sound distance attenuation calculator15 indicates the resulting sound level at the nearest dwelling (118m) would therefore be 76.52dB(A) and at my own property (175m) 73.1 dB(A). On this basis, and in total absence of any documented counter evidence, there is every reason to believe my own and multiple dwellings within the 300m radius of the sound deck were exposed to MNL’s above the maximum licensed limit and terms of the conditions of hire/use.16 Furthermore: - • “Industry research shows that the music noise level in the audience by the mixer position at concerts is typically 100dB(A) and that levels below 95dB(A) will be unlikely to provide satisfactory entertainment for the audience “(see footnote 16, The Noise Council Code of Practise on Environmental Noise from Concerts). • Notably, HSE event noise guidance states “Where the Event LAeq is likely to exceed 96 dB, advise the audience of the risk to their hearing in advance...”17 Heartland Terms & Conditions (T&Cs)18 correspondingly contains the following risk advice for attendees: “Prolonged exposure to loud music may cause damage to your hearing.” If the level at the sound deck was above 95dB(A) as research indicates is an event norm and which Heartland T&Cs appear to warn of, the above referred to limits (described at (a) above) at the nearest and all noise sensitive dwellings would of course be higher than the limits described at (a) above. That scenario is far more representative of the sound level we were subjected to in our home. b) In further example, I attach my own sound reading comparisons of other uses of the Pitlochry recreation ground. I used the US National Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (the US equivalent of the UK 13 See Attachment 5 14 See Attachment 6 15 See Attachment 7 https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/distance-attenuation?c=GBP&v=SPL1:98,r1:25!m,r2:175!m 16 See Attachment 8 17 https://www.hse.gov.uk/event- safety/noise.htm#:~:text=Where%20the%20Event%20LAeq%20is,or%20notices%20at%20entry%20points. 18 https://heartlandfestival.co.uk/terms-and-conditions/ Page 22 of 68
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Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH)) iPhone app with applicable settings, (accurate to +/- 2dBA with a calibrated external microphone)19. • 01/11/2025, 18:58, Fireworks night (pre-fireworks). A local pair of musicians on non-electric guitar and with no drums/bass, singing country/folk songs through a microphone. Several hundred people were in attendance at the time of the reading. The LAeq15mins from this small event was 68.8dB(A)20 outside the windows of my home. An earlier DJ playing pop tracks was considerably louder. • 09/11/2025, Children’s football matches. Two pitches in use with 44 players and a total of only 43 spectators. The LAeq15mins from this activity was 58.6dB(A) outside the windows of my home. It cannot at all be claimed (and is not in any way factually supported) that a significantly larger Heartland event with 8000 daily attendees; concert size speakers; two performance stages; continuous multi-piece bands across 11 hours per day, results in sound levels LOWER than a pair of local musicians and a crowd of a few hundred - or a level only slightly higher than a children’s football match! I trust you can see how evidentially unbelievable and unsubstantiated that claim about Heartland therefore is. By definition, a site where any dwelling is not subjected to a maximum MNL exceeding 65dBLAeq15mins, is the licensed criteria for this event and a condition of hire/use. Heartland does not meet, cannot meet and has not been shown to meet that MNL. The extremely small site size and immediate proximity of noise sensitive dwellings mean - and should have always indicated - this site is inherently unsuitable for this type of event, not the opposite. 1.3 Non application of the Noise Council Code of Practice on Environmental Noise from Concerts 1995 21 or any equivalent replacement guidelines in order to limit disturbance to the surrounding community. It was confirmed to me by Ms. Stewart that this is one of the Codes of Practise applicable to this event and from which the Music Noise Limit (MNL) originates. I am of the belief and it appears self-evident that if this Code of Practice – or its subject guidance - had been applied then this event would have been identified from the outset as being unviable on this site. “The Code is designed to assist those planning a music event, those responsible for licensing such events and those responsible for enforcing nuisance provisions”. Though ‘long in the tooth’, it still remains the only guiding standard to best manage noise from outdoor music events and its impact on communities close to the event. It is referenced in the Scottish Government “Assessment of noise: technical advice note”22and PKC’s “Licensing Board’s Policy With Regards to Noise - Environmental Health Review”.23 19 https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/noise/about/app.html#:~:text=The%20app's%20features%20include:%20*%20Noise%20Dose,the%20ap p%20from%20the%20Apple%20App%20Store. 20 See Attachment 9 21 Code of practice on environmental noise control at concerts 22 https://www.gov.scot/publications/technical-advice-note-assessment-noise/pages/6/ 23 https://www.pkc.gov.uk/media/42221/Environmental-Health-Noise- Review/pdf/Environmental_Health_Noise_Review#:~:text=4.2%20The%20Agent%20for%20Change,is%20with%20the%20venue%20 operator. Page 23 of 68
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This Code was also referred to in the HSE ‘The event safety guide (Second Edition)’ at para 56424. It advised “Refer to this source of guidance for the control of environmental music noise and its impact on communities neighbouring outdoor music events.” However, the current HSE version (also known as The Purple Guide, which PKC requires adherence with) shifted focus entirely from environmental noise control to occupational noise management instead, with the position that event organisers would rely on local authority policies, acoustic consultants, or industry good practice (still the Noise Council Code) to manage residential noise impacts. i) Despite still using the MNL from the ‘Pop’ Code, PKC licensing/hire process does not in any way further require the event organiser to follow any of that Code’s guidance or undertake the best practise pre- event and in-event procedures. Instead, your process is entirely centred and focused on meeting HSE legislation and guidance which itself, in regard to noise, is now concerned only with those holding the event, those working at the event and those attending it. PKC has not substituted or replaced the ‘Pop’ Code of Practise with any other specific policies or guidance in regards to mitigating noise impacts on the surrounding community; you have voided the topic altogether (for no applicable reasons I can find) other than advising contact with EH and generic language of being mindful about disturbance. ii) As none of the recognised best practise guidance is therefore being followed, no pre-event modelling (etc.) took place; no affected residents were identified or contacted nor PKC supplied with a list of those; no fixed noise monitoring positions were implemented at identified noise sensitive locations; no notice was given to residents or the general public of any monitored complaint ‘hotline’. Moreover, the community received no information whatsoever that an EHO would be in attendance as they reportedly were (at least in 2024). In conjunction with the absence of any sound monitoring undertaken at the windows of the closest dwellings, Ms. Stewart acknowledged that no direct contact was specifically made with any neighbouring residents at our homes (particularly the closest residents), before, during, or after the events – and this is despite having made a related complaint myself to PKC and the Organiser two days before the 2025 event started (1.4 below). PKC were on site the day before the event started and on the day of the event itself for site checks. iii) Tickets are on sale for a separate additional event (through a new subsidiary company of Heartland)25 “An Evening With …” from 3:00pm to 10:00pm on the preceding Friday and extending the event to three consecutive days and 29 hours of performance. This began being advertised (and separately ticketed for) on social media from JULY 26th 2025 and clearly once again long before any other and differing licensing application was submitted (at the time of this objection none has been made). Zero contact or consultation whatsoever (from the Organiser, P&MCC, PCAT or PKC) has again been made with neighbouring/affected residents on this further disruption and event enlargement. A 2025 post 24 https://www.huntingdonshire.gov.uk/media/2746/hse-event-safety-guide.pdf 25 https://heartlandfestival.co.uk/friday-night-tickets-2026/ Page 24 of 68
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event survey was released on Heartland social media but that only asked questions of attendees of their experience. 1.4 Disregard of and Non-Compliance with PKC 'Safe and Legal Events' guidance26: "As an organiser of an event, you must at all times have regard to environmental noise concerns by taking into account whether the venue is suited to the type of event being proposed by being aware that noise from many different sources can occur during an event and may cause undue disturbance to local residents and neighbouring properties. The size of the event and the nature of the entertainment will dictate the type of disturbance that will arise and by contacting Environmental & Consumer Services in advance of the event, officers will be able to provide advice/information specific to your event on the control of noise nuisance". Given the sensitivity and intimacy of the location and the non-application of the industry best practise guidelines or any alternative for mitigating community disturbance, it is unarguable that the organiser nor PKC fully considered, assessed or proved the suitability of the site for this amplified mass attendance event. PKC EH has also failed to correctly monitor initial and ongoing MNL compliance (and absolved the Organiser of any requirement to do the same) while making wholly unsubstantiated but supportive public statements in the media that “there were no breaches” (of the MNL). I made a formal complaint (to the Organiser and PKC) two days prior to the 2025 event regarding: • The siting of a Ferris Wheel less than 25m from my windows27 (where it remained anyway despite my objection and a PKC pre-event site visit) • Blocking of access to the children’s playground despite it being outwith the event site boundary. • Blocking of a core footpath28 from Wednesday 25/06/25, 3 days before the event commenced (PLRY/55: Riverside Path, Tummel Cresent to Bridge Road) contrary to the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 - for which, as far as I am aware, no S.11 Modification Order/Exemption was obtained nor displayed by the Organiser or PKC29. The blocking was blatantly in operation during the PKC pre-event site visit. The Organiser had intended the access restriction to be in place for 7 days, despite exemption from access rights longer than 5 days requiring advance approval from Scottish Ministers and a formal public consultation process. This again highlights a blatant disregard by the Organiser and PKC toward community disturbance, let alone toward the governing legislative requirements. It should be further considered that for members of the Public a Site Notice provides no substantive event information whatsoever and thereby we have no access to any of the event plans (I have twice asked PKC for copies of the event NMP’s but they haven’t been forthcoming). It should not be left to members of the public to ensure (or challenge) that an event has met or is adhering to the terms of a PKC license and conditions of hire/use, or PKC site plan approvals are actually fit for purpose – and we can only do so during 26 https://www.pkc.gov.uk/media/41357/Event-safety-guidance-full- version/pdf/Safe_and_legal_event_guidance.pdf?m=1516881250340 27 See Attachment 10 28 See Attachment 6 29 https://www.gov.scot/publications/land-reform-scotland-act-2003-modification-order-2013-guidance-local/pages/3/ Page 25 of 68
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or after the event. The reality then becomes “we messed up, sorry, but you have to put up with it anyway”. Allowing the event to be held again under the same circumstances simply won’t be acceptable nor compliant with conditions of hire/use and licensing. 1.5 “Perth and Kinross Licensing Board’s Policy With Regards to Noise - Environmental Health Review”30: “The Agent for Change Principle places the responsibility for mitigating any detrimental impact of noise on neighbours to a music venue with those carrying out the new development or operations.” I believe this Principle is a wholly applicable consideration for the Licensing Committee and was from the outset when assessing the impact on neighbouring residences of the new use of this site. It is very much a change of use from existing events and due to the biodiversity sensitivity of the site, this use should be considered by PKC to be a ‘plan or project’ if necessary (see 2.3 below). Heartland is unlike any other long-standing events such as the Highland Games, Highland Nights, Etape or the occasional Circus in terms of length, sound levels, disturbance, size and impact. Affected residents living around the site pre-date the event being given 2024 approval yet have had ZERO consultation on its suitability nor consideration of its impact upon us. • I do not believe there are any mitigation measures which can lessen the sound impact. The event needs to be at a sound level which is viable for audience enjoyment (of 8-9000 per day); However, that clearly results in and requires sound levels exceeding the maximum licensed MNL experienced at site adjoining dwellings due to the confines of the site and the proximity of those dwellings. 2. Objection: Unsuitable Location/ Nature & Extent/ Other Good Reason – Contravention of Wildlife/Species Protections and Habitat Disturbance Licensing of this event on Pitlochry recreation ground further contravenes government directives and multiple wildlife legislations and I believe wrongly makes a legal activity out of what would otherwise be offences under those. Gardens of neighbouring residences and the immediately surrounding habitat of the site - and watercourse being a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) - are home to and/or provide shelter and access networks to UK and European protected species and native birdlife. These nature networks “ensure that wildlife can move from place to place and enable the natural world to adapt to change, providing plants and animals with places to live, feed and breed wherever they are”. PKC in assessing the suitability of the site should once again already be fully aware of that as the information comes from you31. • Licensing approval therefore further contravenes and is not consistent with para. 13.9 of PKC’s ‘Community Greenspace CONDITIONS OF HIRE/USE’32. “The Hirer must ensure the Event/Promotion must be fully compliant with all applicable environmental legislation…” 30 https://www.pkc.gov.uk/media/42221/Environmental-Health-Noise-Review/pdf/Environmental_Health_Noise_Review 31 https://www.pkc.gov.uk/article/24381/Perth-and-Kinross-Nature-Networks 32 https://www.pkc.gov.uk/media/43655/Greenspace-conditions-of- hire/pdf/GREENSPACE_CONDITIONS_OF_HIRE_JAN_20191.pdf?m=636860918906070000 Page 26 of 68
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• Licensing of the event on this site could also be considered a breach of PKC’s statutory duty to protect and conserve biodiversity under the Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 200433 • Licensing of the event would further be in opposition to Objective 6 of the government’s ‘Scottish Biodiversity Strategy and delivery plan 2024 - 2030’34 2.1 In the immediately adjoining wooded areas and residential gardens surrounding the recreation ground, (most notably on the Bruach Lane, Ferry Road & Tummel Crescent side) Red Squirrell, Bats and transient Pine Marten are resident/present. These are all legally protected species. Holding the event on this site contravenes the Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981. 2.2 Schedule 5, Section 9(4)(a) of the 1981 Act prohibits the damage, destruction, or obstruction of access to any structure or place which any wild mammal listed on Schedule 5 uses for shelter or protection; Section 9(4)(b) prohibits the disturbance of any such mammal while it is occupying a structure or place which it uses for that purpose and it is an offence to do so unless in pursuit of a legal activity. I submit that it is entirely unfeasible that this event does not obstruct nor disturb these protected species from their normal places of occupation/use which immediately surround the site and the River Tummel which runs alongside.35 As opined earlier, as the event does not actually meet PKC’s licensable requirements or Conditions for Hire/Use, I submit that the wildlife disturbances it creates cannot therefore be considered to be made legal. 2.3 Otters and Beaver - also European protected species – have twice (Nov 2022 & Mar 2025) been formerly identified and recorded as using the River Tummel and its north bank as a habitat in immediate proximity to the recreation ground and the event car parking area36. The event site directly adjoins37 the Tay Special Area of Conservation (a protected ‘European site’ of international importance). PKC clearly identifies and recognises at Section.5 in your own SAC document, that Otters “… need quiet conditions and can be prone to disturbance (i.e. a possible offence) resulting in them deserting an area.”.38 The event therefore further contravenes The Conservation (Natural Habitats) Regulations 1994 (S.39 (b) (iv)) which implements the EU Habitats Directive. 2.4 It is my understanding that because the event site adjoins and thereby impacts upon a SAC, that a Habitats Regulations Appraisal (HRA) should be required39. At least one other local authority (The Highland Council) 40 interprets the Habitats Directive in this manner and requires consultation with Planning when applying for a Public Entertainment License. I therefore highlight: - 33 https://www.nature.scot/doc/guidance-note-biodiversity-duty- explained#:~:text=Under%20the%20Nature%20Conservation%20(Scotland,compliance%20with%20the%20Biodiversity%20Duty. 34 https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-biodiversity-delivery-plan-20242030/pages/7/ 35 https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/loud-music-festivals-could-reduce-bat-activity-in-some-species-by-nearly-50/ 36 https://planningapps.pkc.gov.uk/online-applications/files/B2744D67BB45A23C3AB7F43ACE9C2592/pdf/10_00666_FLM- CONDITION_14_ECOLOGY_REPORT-2332853.pdf 37 See Attachment 12 https://sitelink.nature.scot/site/8366 38 https://www.pkc.gov.uk/media/37577/River-Tay-SPG-Final-2016/pdf/River_Tay_SPG_Final_2016.pdf?m=636108416088970000 39 For the Birds? The Habitats Regulations and the Licensing of Outdoor Festivals | Cornerstone Barristers 40 Public_Entertainment_Guidance_Notes___Sep_2025.pdf Page 27 of 68
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• Under Regulation 48 of the Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c.) Regulations 1994 (as they apply in Scotland), a licensing authority must treat an application for a public entertainment licence as a “plan or project”41 where: — the activity could potentially have an impact on a European site (SAC) — the licence is a “consent, permission or other authorisation” issued by a competent authority; (Licensing authorities are competent authorities under Reg 3.) — the activity authorised by the licence is not directly connected with or necessary to the management of any European site; and — the activity is likely to have a significant effect on a European site, either alone or in combination with other plans or projects (notably the Tesco development). — If these conditions are met, the licensing authority: — must carry out a Habitats Regulations Assessment (HRA) screening, and — if a likely significant effect cannot be excluded, an Appropriate Assessment is legally required. By PKC’s own criteria, 29 hours of amplified music and crowds of thousands per day, across 3 days and until 10pm is self-evidently a guarantee of disturbance to said species. It is nonsensical that PKC on one hand warns of disturbance (which is ordinarily an illegal activity and could thereby be an offence under law) and then nonetheless licenses a weekend long music event which directly and negatively impacts upon both the resident species and habitat which PKC has a statutory duty to protect. 2.5 The prior ecological/Otter42 surveys conducted for the Tesco supermarket planning application43 state at 4.2.5: “Avoid working in the vicinity of otter habitat during the hours of darkness and within two hours after sunrise and two hours before sunset”. Sunset on the weekend of Heartland 2025 was at 22:10 and the event was nonetheless licensed to end at 22:00 (having been 23:00 in 2024). Despite warning about the perils of disturbance, it is once again entirely illogical that PKC in licensing this event would not then at the very least apply the same guidance and extend the same time restriction to a weekend-long music festival in order to ensure the same recommended species and habitat safeguards; If you did so, this event, if allowed to operate, would have to end by 8pm. 2.6 Licensing approval can also be viewed to be in further contradiction to the Scottish government National Events Strategy, “Developing the Industry”, Part 3: "Supporting the protection and considerate enjoyment of Scotland’s natural and cultural heritage"44. 41 “Applying The Guidance” https://www.nature.scot/doc/european-site-casework-guidance-how-consider-plans-and-projects- affecting-special-areas-conservation 42 https://planningapps.pkc.gov.uk/online-applications/files/1234157478F6CF94D12FA24E9BBD1CCE/pdf/10_00666_FLM- CONDITION_14_-_OTTER_SURVEY-1979110.pdf 43 https://planningapps.pkc.gov.uk/online-applications/files/B2744D67BB45A23C3AB7F43ACE9C2592/pdf/10_00666_FLM- CONDITION_14_ECOLOGY_REPORT-2332853.pdf 44 https://www.visitscotland.org/tourism-events-industry/strategies/national-events Page 28 of 68
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Pitlochry's attraction to residents and visitors alike remains overwhelmingly due to its environmental heritage and biodiversity, as identified by Pitlochry Community Action Trust (PCAT)45 and PKC46. PKC also recognises our biodiversity as remaining under risk47 and as already referenced, you have a statutory duty to protect and conserve it. 3. Objection: Location/Nature & Extent/Possibility of Public Nuisance, Public Order and or Public Safety/ Other Good Reason: - Environment & Transport: The entire approach to transport for this festival is also further contrary to all of PKC's and Scottish government climate action/net zero/ green economy/transport plans and aspirations48 , national events strategy, event guidance, and even the PCAT49 statements about environment & sustainability: 3.1 This festival relies exclusively on fossil fuel power. Festival HGV’s, event suppliers, bands and their equipment, up to 2500 private vehicles (as per previously advertised parking capacity) and additional laid- on buses are travelling into the heart of rural residential Pitlochry transporting attendees to an event wholly powered by a myriad of fuel powered generators. For the 2025 festival, shuttle buses additional to public transport had to be laid-on to and from caravan parks as far away as Aberfeldy. This was entirely as a result of insufficient public transport to facilitate movement to and from the event50 or around the area in general and, presumably, in response to the event making a significant financial loss in 2024 due to insufficient numbers attending. 3.2 From the volume of private vehicles attending the 2025 festival, it is apparent that will be and continue to be by necessity the main mode of transport to and from this event. All of the public transport buses (Citylink, Megabus, Flix) available after event close in 2025 provided a combined total seating capacity of only some 307 passengers on all services North and South. Obviously, not all of those passengers would have been event attendees. Clearly the contribution of public bus transport is therefore inconsequential to the visitor numbers the event attracted. As far as I am aware only one southbound train left after the event close and that was only on the Saturday – there were none in either direction on the Sunday. • PKC only provides and administers some 227 public parking spaces in Pitlochry51. On-street parking is limited to 30mins. Clearly the town has no capacity whatsoever to provide any appropriate level of parking purely for this event which takes place on a weekend during peak tourist season when the town is already known to at least double in occupancy and before event parking restrictions are further applied. 45 https://pitlochryaction.org.uk/theme-groups/environment-and-sustainability/2/ 46 https://www.pkc.gov.uk/media/27297/Householders-Guide-to- Biodiversity/pdf/Householders_Guide_To_Biodiversity.pdf?m=1410534692097 47 https://www.pkclimateaction.co.uk/biodiversity-act-now 48 https://www.pkclimateaction.co.uk/transport https://www.transport.gov.scot/our-approach/environment/ 49 https://pitlochryaction.org.uk/theme-groups/environment-and-sustainability/2/ 50 https://heartlandfestival.co.uk/shuttle-buses-update-03-09-2024/ 51 https://www.pkc.gov.uk/article/20720/Map-of-car-parking Page 29 of 68
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3.3 The adjoining parking field previously used by the event is now being built upon for the Tesco supermarket development52. Despite knowing this: - • The Organisers claimed on 17/08/25 that a park-and- ride’ facility ‘2-miles outside of town’ would be available. They are also still claiming that the parking sold up to that time, including Blue Badge holders, will still be available on the original site. • On 05/11/25 (still almost 8 months before a 2026 event), the Heartland website provided an update that there would likely be no such facility after all “…as it is proving problematic to get the logistics in place and to make a Park ‘n’ Ride commercially viable for 2026”53. 3.4 Contravention of PKC 'Safe and Legal Events' Guidance. Step1. Section 28. Parking Arrangements - On and Off-Street54. “You must take into consideration that the existing public/private parking arrangements may be affected by the event. This, along with the required parking needs for the event, must be catered for.” If this event will not and cannot ‘cater for’ the required parking for the attendees it sells tickets to – now by choice simply due to commercial viability / profitability considerations - then it again highlights this site is not at all in the ‘perfect location’ and will be once again in breach of specific PKC event terms (PKC language that “parking needs (…) must be catered for” is clearly an instruction). The expanding event cannot be allowed to simply divest itself again of another problem it creates (and has known of long in advance) without any recourse and at the further expense of residents, community and environment. • This event takes place on a mid-summer weekend in peak tourist season. It is wholly unlike other events such as The Enchanted Forest which takes place in mid-Autumn across an entire month. The Enchanted Forest event only has a maximum of 1/3rd of the total daily attendees of Heartland; the majority arrive late afternoon and leave on a staggered timed ticket basis across the evening. However, even this results in resident and organiser complaints about visitor parking in inappropriate and potentially life-threatening places55 as those organisers warned of on their website and social media. • I note that the Highland Games (one-day event ending at 6:00pm) in September attracts a similar one-day number of attendees as Heartland and yet they considerately - and were commercially able - to put on a park-and-ride in 2025 due to the same parking field issue56 despite what appears to be extremely short notice (Tesco development commenced in the month preceding the Games). When considering ‘commercial viability’, it is notable their adult ticketing cost considerably less than Heartland (1/6th of a full price Saturday ticket) and parking charges being 50% less. 52 See Attachment 11. 53 https://heartlandfestival.co.uk/our-november-2025-update/ 54 https://www.pkc.gov.uk/media/41357/Event-safety-guidance-full- version/pdf/Safe_and_legal_event_guidance.pdf?m=1516881250340 55 See Attachment 13 56 https://www.facebook.com/pitlochrylife/posts/-pitlochry-highland-games-2025-recreation-ground-ferry-road-ph16- 5dz%EF%B8%8F-online-tic/1337822628128180/ Page 30 of 68
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• As for the Organisers newly announced desire to challenge the top 2 festivals, Trnsmt in Glasgow city centre in addition to being served by excellent local regional and inter-city public transport links, also provides 2,354 parking spaces across 7 designated public car parks within 15 mins walk to the festival site. However, dozens of streets still face disruption due to full road closures, parking bans, and suspensions of taxi and bus lanes. The Belladrum Tartan Heart festival, held on a country estate, provides three car parking fields and a caravan/campervan site. In addition, a shuttle bus service runs between Inverness and local towns. Despite that, the event brings well-documented traffic chaos to the area every year.57 • Due to carparking mismanagement in 2025, mid-afternoon on the Sunday saw the Heartland carpark area ‘full’ (despite the 2,500 advertised spaces) and vehicles being turned away. This caused additional traffic disruption into and out of town and on the High street especially as arriving vehicles then tried to park anywhere they could. This was clearly a warning of what lies ahead when there is no carparking facility whatsoever, or reduced and insufficient capacity in the future. As it now stands, at event end at 10:00pm and for 3 consecutive nights, a crowd 3x larger than Pitlochry’s entire population would be on our streets. Due to the main acts being at the end of each evening, the crowd majority is therefore incentivised to stay until that time. The majority of those would now be awaiting a campsite shuttle (on the High Street) or heading back to cars parked all over our town anywhere a space can be found. • In the very unlikely off-chance that a park-and-ride facility ‘2-miles outside of town’ materialises, that would not alleviate matters of disturbance. If it is conservatively estimated only 50% of event attendees arrive by private vehicle, then that would still mean some 4000 people (+ those using campsite shuttles) per night would be left at the event site, high street, or other congregation point awaiting transport. It would literally take well into the early hours of the next day to move a crowd still 1/3rd larger than Pitlochry’s population. The potential for public nuisance, safety and community disturbance is glaringly obvious, especially as many will also have been making use of the event bars all day58. Moreover, even if a park and ride did materialise, the health and safety risk arising from attendees choosing to walk back in the dark (many with children) to some unfamiliar rural parking field instead of waiting hours for a shuttle sounds as inevitable and dangerous as it does absurd. It is locally presumed that in the future some remaining Tesco land will again be available for parking. However, that will be <50% capacity (and a shared entry/exit onto Bridge Road with the supermarket access) which means this parking issue will not be remedied nor will it go away in future. It can only get 57 https://www.strathspey-herald.co.uk/news/belladrum-to-introduce-12-charge-per-vehicle-in-2024-to-tac-323261/ 58 See Attachment 13 Page 31 of 68
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worse especially as this event now has admitted aspirations to keep growing in spite of all the existing transgressions identified here. • This issue is compounded further by the fact that due to the Tesco development it is most likely that access to a 2026 event will only be via Ferry Road. Up to 8000 daily attendees using a single route and access point (it also being a National cycle route and the main pedestrian walkway from town to and from the Pitlochry Festival Theatre) throughout the day and at event close guarantees public nuisance to residents and throws up obvious public safety concerns for event emergency access/egress for attendees and services. • Moreover, as of 23/01/26 a PKC warning has now been posted on your social media about structural defects being found on the Aldour Bridge on Bridge Road. Traffic control measures including lane reduction have been implemented and if they continue, or a possible bridge closure for (lengthy) repairs, access to and from the town during this event (combined with Tesco development at the same location) and for an additional 2,500 vehicles, is going to result in chaos with access into and out of town then solely via the high street. Conclusion This event should first and foremost be held on a site where it meets and fully complies with the PKC conditions of hire/use, license terms and all associated legislation and event guidance. The many fully qualified and referenced points outlined here are entirely sufficient in identifying and confirming that the Pitlochry recreation ground was and is now more than ever an entirely unsuitable site to hold this type of event on, not the opposite as claimed. Moreover, licensing approval would in fact be (again) contrary to and in direct contravention of a multitude of PKC, EU, UK/Scottish government legislation, policies, and guidance (and even the PCAT Action Plan) relating to noise, transport/parking, climate, environment, biodiversity, sustainability, access, and, specifically events of this type. All laws, guidelines or requirements to ensure residents, environment and local biodiversity are not subject to disturbance or nuisance are being overlooked, over-ridden and/or disregarded in order to operate and facilitate this commercial for-profit event – one which it should be noted is only viable at all due to volunteer participation and will not even provide parking for its own event due entirely to further profitability considerations. There is in fact no evidence that any mitigation measures have been undertaken to minimise community disturbance. The absence of, or inadequacy of, any parking facility compounded by an additional day of operation ensures disturbances keep being added to rather than diminished. Page 32 of 68
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• PCAT Action Plan59 at Theme 4 states “Ensure large events providers work with the community to manage visitor impact “. We residents (particularly site adjoining ones) are the community and it is us this event most negatively and directly impacts upon and creates a nuisance to and yet we have had no consultation or consideration whatsoever. The lack of any event parking or greatly reduced future parking and the impact from visitor numbers stemming from that has not in any way been broached with Pitlochry’s wider community. We wholly respect the Organiser’s “dream” to hold a festival. However, Pitlochry is home to some 2,700 residents, most like us whose dream was and is to enjoy our environment and biodiversity. • PCAT Community Action Plan acknowledges at Theme 5 - “The natural environment and surrounding beauty of the area is what people value most about Pitlochry with nearly 75% of responses in the survey. So, it makes sense that protecting and enhancing the environmental assets and sustainability of the area were prioritised as actions.”. • This is in comparison to Theme 6 where it is stated only “a quarter of respondents in the survey said they valued and appreciated the local events, arts and cultural offerings in the town.” An expanding, polluting, ‘mini-Glastonbury’ outside of our windows and booming through our homes, gardens and wildlife habitats for three days was never part of our dream, nor, as the survey suggests, the wider community’s. Neither was the prospect of an additional 2,500 vehicles and their occupants trying to park in our town; rather, it allows the further monetisation of Pitlochry’s environment for the benefit of profit makers and other vested interests once again. However, to adjoining residents particularly, this event creates a statutory nuisance and more widely negatively impacts upon biodiversity; it can disturb and drive species away as warned by PKC itself in your Tay SAC document. Both dreams can be fulfilled and maintained if the event is held in a more suitable, accessible, sustainable, less invasive and less disruptive location – as the former longstanding Blair Horse Trials (as previously referenced by the Organiser in the media) more than adequately proved. Likewise, any and all alleged local economic benefit claimed in support of the event would of course equally apply should it take place on a more appropriate site - once again as the Blair Horse Trials historically proved. Should the Organiser state that it is too late to move this event if this or any other objection is upheld, then I again bring to your attention your own Safe and Legal Events Guidance, notably venue suitability. Someone else brought this topic up on Heartland social media back in August ’25 resulting from news of Tesco and the loss of carparking. The organiser was already claiming back then that relocating was “not a viable option at this stage”. That was in fact at an unlicensed stage and only some 6 weeks after the 2025 event ended. 59 https://pitlochryaction.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/PitlochryCAP-fin_al-document-with-printer-1.pdf Page 33 of 68
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I have no idea what, if any, other local sites the Organiser originally considered for this event (or was ever questioned about that) but evidently Pitlochry recreation ground is not only far from the ‘ideal’ location it is claimed to be, it is wholly unsuitable to the residential community which surrounds it. Sincerely, D Jegier Page 34 of 68
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Attachment 1. Locations/sites of comparable outdoor music events within approx. 1 hour of Pitlochry: Pitlochry Recreation Ground event site is only some 6.9 acres in size and the nearest dwelling to the front of the sound deck is only 118m. • “Doof in the Park” Camperdown Country Park, Dundee, >400 acres, attendance 10,000, closest dwelling to front of stage 510m, Google map • “Bonfest” (agricultural land – outdoor stage only in operation 17:00 – 23:00) Kirriemuir, Angus, 34 acres, attendance 7,000, closest dwelling to front of stage 620m, Google map • “Solas Festival” Erroll Park, Perthshire, 3,000 acres, attendance 1,000, closest dwelling front of stage not applicable (too distant), Google map • “[Back] Doune The Rabbit Hole” Cardross Estate, Stirling, 4,500 acres, attendance 15,000 closest dwelling to front of stage not applicable (too distant), Google map • “Rockore” Lochore Meadows Country Park, Lochgelly, Fife, 1,200 acres, attendance 4000, closest dwelling to front of stage 717m, Google map • “Outwith” Pittencrief Park, Dunfermline, Fife, 76 acres, attendance 9,000 (spread across town venues) closest dwelling to front of outdoor stage 420m, Google map Further Afield: • Belladrum Tartan Heart, Belladrum Estate nr Inverness, 1,150 acres, attendance 20,000, closest dwelling to front of stage not applicable (too distant), Google map Former Festivals: • Rewind, Scone Palace, Perth, 18,000 acres, attendance 20,000, closest dwelling to front of stage 820m, Google map • Fake Festival, South Inch, Perth, 77 acres, 2000 capacity (held inside a Marquee), closest dwelling to front of stage 420m, Google map • T in the Park, Strathallan, 1,000 acres, 70 -80,000 daily capacity, closest dwelling to front of stage not applicable (too distant), Google map Page 35 of 68
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Attachment 2: Approximate 300m Radius of Heartland Sound Deck. Some 98 dwellings immediately surround the site, commencing at only 118m from the sound deck. A slight increase in radius would incorporate the entire Tummel Crescent estate and extend well beyond the lower High Street Page 36 of 68
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Attachment 3: Email Questions to PKC EH Team – answers subsequently discussed with Ms. Stewart, EHO, via Telephone at her request. Sent: 25 September 2025 11:57 Subject: Information request, Heartland Festival, Pitlochry Apologies, you may receive this twice as I might have sent it to the wrong email address the first time. Good morning EH team, I have made prior enquiries to PKC in relation to the Heartland Festival which were kindly answered by Mr Rankine (Licensing Standards Officer) with, I believe, the relevant input coming from yourselves. I would kindly appreciate further clarifications (in red below) on those answers please as clearly your team is the one who is responsible for these specific matters: - Mr. R: "Noise Management Plan was submitted detailing controls in place that are required to ensure MNL’s meet the Code of Practice limits. Propagation tests carried out prior to opening of event with EH in attendance." What Code of Practise is specifically being referred to? What 'Propagation tests' were carried out? When and where, specifically, were they conducted and what did they consist of? To your knowledge, was any form of noise modelling or noise impact assessment conducted (or required) on the site before the event – as part of NMP or otherwise? Mr. R: “Whilst not set as limits, NMP stipulates maximum Front of House at mixing desk level, along with Event Safety Management Plan (ESMP) stipulating HSE Noise at Work regulations. Guidance is also taken from The Purple Guide” In the NMP, what was the referred to maximum stipulated FOH/mixing desk level? During the set-up propagation tests what, if any, FOH/mixing deck maximum level was established in order to achieve the event limit of 65dB? At which specific location/s was the limit of 65dB (and referred to low frequency levels) tested at during that process? Mr. R: "PKC stipulate The Code of Practice levels as being the limit at any event within P&K area. In addition to the MNL not exceeding 65dB, guidance levels of 70-75dB at 63Hz and 125Hz are followed." Again, what specific Code of Practise is being referred to here and where are these guidance limits contained? Mr. R: “In addition to the event organiser carrying out noise monitoring. EH officers were in attendance throughout event in 2024 and 2025 and carried out monitoring. This was done with a Type 1 noise meter at various locations. Majority of monitoring was undertaken at the boundaries of the site, outside properties at Ferry Crescent and Ferry Road.” Did the Organiser, prior to the event, identify all noise-sensitive premises liable to be affected? Did the Organiser or yourselves conduct noise monitoring at any noise-sensitive premises? If so, specifically which noise-sensitive premises did monitoring take place at, by whom and how frequently? Thank you in advance for your assistance. Kind regards, Sent: 14 October 2025 14:18 To: Dawn Stewart Subject: Re: Information request, Heartland Festival, Pitlochry Hi Dawn, Just a quick follow-up to thank you for the call today and for discussing/answering the points I raised in my original email. Regards, Page 37 of 68
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Attachment 4. Email content from Mr. Dave Stubbs, PKC Greenspace Coordinator (Communities) 26/06/25, 15:56. All tests themselves required not to exceed 65dB. Dear Mr Jegier, Your recent enquiry has been passed on Community Greenspace. We manage park event bookings including for the Heartland Festival. Can you please confirm the funfair rides are being set up in the location shown on the attached plan which is what has been agreed. It is not going to be possible to move it in relation to this year’s event but if you feel that it is too intrusive we can certainly look to make changes in relation to future events. For your information these are the event timings from their Noise Management Plan. 3. Event Timings in Relation to Noise 3.1 The following days and times detail risk of potential noise • Wednesday 25th June: o Stage construction commences (low-level metallic sounds) o Plant movement (low-level car noise from a single engine) • Thursday 26th June: o Stage construction continues (low-level metallic sounds) o Plant movement (low-level car noise from a single engine) o Site deliveries (low-level car noise from multiple vehicles) • Friday 27th June: o Production load in (low-level noise from vehicles) o PM – Audio system testing (not exceeding 65db) • Saturday 28th June: o AM – Production load in (low-level noise from vehicles) o AM – Sound check (not before 9am and not exceeding 65db) o 11:00 – 22:00 – Concert o 22:00 – 23:30 – Production load out (low-level car noise) • Sunday 29th June: o AM – Production load in (low-level noise from vehicles) o AM – Sound check (not before 9am and not exceeding 65db) o 11:00 – 22:00 – Concert o 22:00 – 23:30 – Production load out (low-level car noise) Page 38 of 68
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Attachment 4. Typical sound levels as per A) PKC ‘Licensing Board Policy With Regards to Noise - Environmental Health Review” & B) Scottish Government Antisocial Behaviour etc (Scotland) Act 2004: A) B) Page 39 of 68
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Attachment 6. Heartland Site Boundary, Site Plan, Sound Deck Position Blocking of Core Footpath & Access to Playground as of 25/06/25 Fenced Off Pavillion, Car Park and Playground also Outwith the Site Boundary Page 40 of 68
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Attachment 7. Sound Distance Attenuator Calculator. If 90dB(A) at sound deck 25m from main stage as PKC EHO claimed: - Closest Dwelling My Home 300m Radius Limit If at least 96db(A) at sound deck (as per Code of Practise event research): - Page 41 of 68
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Attachment 8. Basic Desktop Visualisation of Sound Attenuator Calculator, 90dB(A) at sound deck, 300m radius 96dB(A) at sound deck (as per event industry researched norms) 300m radius Page 42 of 68
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Attachment 9. 01/11/2025. Pre-Fireworks, Pitlochry Recreation Ground. Several Hundred People Attended (Photo Taken Before Crowd Arrived as it Was Getting Dark) A Local Guitarist and a Singer Were Playing / Singing Country & Folk Songs. An earlier DJ was significantly louder. 11/09/25. Children’s Football. Two Pitches in Use. 44 players and 43 Spectators Page 43 of 68
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Attachment 10. In addition to excessive event sound, this attraction was in use throughout the whole of the 2-day event. It was also illuminated by neon strip lighting during the evenings and a generator was situated on the other side of my garden hedge. PKC responded that this could be reconsidered in future “…if you find it too intrusive”! (Attachment 4). “Plus Quam Tolerabile”, Objective Test: Whether a reasonable person, in the same circumstances, would find the interference with their use and enjoyment of property to be "more than can reasonably be tolerated" 21.95m From My Windows and 10m From My Front Garden : Core Path/Park Closure From 25/6/25 Organiser intended for 7 Days. Fenced Off Areas are also Outwith the approved Site Plan Page 44 of 68
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Attachment 11. Pitlochry, Tesco Supermarket & Car Park: Site workers now advise the timeline for completion as being December 2026. Construction work is undertaken Mon-Fri inclusive so it will be underway during the proposed additional Friday event. 28/01/2026 Page 45 of 68
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Attachment 12. TAY Special Area of Conservation adjoining Pitlochry Recreation Ground Tesco Planning, Eco Reports (2022/2025) Otter & Beaver Field Signs Page 46 of 68
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Attachment 13. Heartland Facebook Page From 25/08/2025, + Enchanted Forest & Theatre Posts Page 47 of 68
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1 Civic Licensing From: Donald Mullen Sent: 24 January 2026 19:11 To: Civic Licensing Subject: Heartland Festival objection Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Completed DearSir/Madam I wish to object strongly to the above festival on grounds of woefully inadequate provision of parking spaces since the organisers are providing no additional spaces. In the past, even when the festival provided additional parking spaces, we experienced people parking on our premises when we were out. The situation will now be much worse. Pitlochry is a small town unsuitable for the staging of large events. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that it takes place during the peak tourist season in Pitlochry. Dr Donald Mullen The Querns Bruach Lane Pitlochry PH16 5DG Page 48 of 68
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1 Civic Licensing From: Sent: 02 February 2026 12:23 To: Civic Licensing Subject: Heartland Festival 2026 CAUTION: This email originated from an external organisation. Do not follow guidance, click links, or open attachments unless you have verified the sender and know the content is safe. Sir / Madam I write to make my views known regarding the Heartland Festival 2026 https://heartlandfestival.co.uk to be held on the 27th & 28th June 2026. I am aware that an individual has been orchestrating a pernicious campaign objecting to the festival on grounds that I am not aware of. As a local resident living close to the centre of the town (PH16 5FB) I wish to register my support for the festival and the economic and cultural benefit the festival will once again bring to the town. I am a trustee of two Pitlochry based OSCR registered charities and of an associate of an international charity all of which devout a lot of time and energy raising funds to enhance the Pitlochry Community. In the current economic climate raising funds can be a challenging undertaking. As treasurer of Pitlochry Community Action Trust (PCAT), I confirm the Trust were delighted to have been awarded a grant from the Heartland Festival 2025 team, this award allowed the Trust to leverage matched funding from other funders (including Perth and Kinross Council & the Gannochy Trust) which has in turn contributed to Pitlochry Town Centre Enhancement and a soon to be announced music project in conjunction with Pitlochry High School. The Heartland Festival 2025 delivered significant economic impact for Perth & Kinross, with over £2.1 million in direct spend, a highly engaged audience travelling from across Scotland and beyond, and an exceptionally strong satisfaction and loyalty rate and we are looking forward to an even bigger and better festival in 2026. Hopefully the 2025 Festival's nomination for Scotland's Festival of the Year will help raise the town's profile and I am aware that a number of the accommodation providers both in Pitlochry and the surrounding area are already fully booked for the week-end indicating the economic benefit is spread well beyond the immediate PH16 area. The focus of the organisers in providing a family friendly event (free for children) has had the desired outcome of a multi-generational cultural event and I and the organisations I volunteer with fully support the Heartland Festival 2026 and will again offer our support as community volunteers to promote and deliver the event for the Pitlochry Community. Kind Regards Leslie Gill 1 St Colm Place Pitlochry PH16 5FB President of the Rotary Club of Pitlochry (2025/26) Treasurer and Trustee of Pitlochry Community Action Trust Treasurer and Trustee of Pitlochry Community First Responders You don't often get email from . Learn why this is important Page 49 of 68
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1 Civic Licensing From: laura lewis Sent: 05 February 2026 12:21 To: Civic Licensing Subject: Heartland Festival- support! [You don't oen get email from . Learn why this is important at hps://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdenficaon ] CAUTION: This email originated from an external organisaon. Do not follow guidance, click links, or open aachments unless you have verified the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Sir/ Madam, I felt it necessary to write having seen your email address being shared on a local Facebook page. Ironically it was posted by someone wanng to cause trouble for the Heartland Fesval which I found somewhat galling. They appeared to be aempng to gather support for prevenng this event to go ahead/ be deliberate menacing to hinder the organisers? Luckily, they have lile if any social media support. Having aended the event both 2024 and 2025, with ckets purchased for 2026, I wanted to get in touch to show huge support for the event. Knowing the area well, we were delighted to come to Pitlochry for the weekend the last two years. Working in hospitality for many years, I wanted to support the fesval with my then 11yr old son, some friends with younger children also came along. We travelled from Edinburgh both years and were totally excited to parcipate in a very organised, personal and family friendly weekend. While 2025 was busier than the first year- the hotels well and truly took advantage of this by hiking up their prices- the atmosphere and feeling of ‘safety’ were just as present the second year as they were the first. My friends brought ear defenders for her younger children since was worried about the noise- these were unnecessary however due to the clever stage posioning and being an outdoor event, can’t imagine noise being any problem at all for neighbouring homes. The music also ended around 10pm both evenings each year and everyone exited smoothly and quickly. The buses being available from the Main Street were also orderly, swi and I didn’t hear any negaves whatsoever. Being on Heartland’s social media page, I connue to be impressed with their organisaon, addressing any issues- (I know parking is an issue this year due to building works) and am extremely confident this 2026 weekend will be another huge success. It’s saddening that a very few people choose to aempt to conjure up bad feeling and negavity. Thankfully these folk appear to be a very small minority. Heartland fesval 2026, here we come! Sincerely, Page 50 of 68
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Judith Dingwall, Chair Pitlochry Community Action Trust February, 2026 Dear Members of the Council, RE: Letter of Support for Heartland Festival I am writing on behalf of Pitlochry Community Action Trust to express our strong support for the Heartland Festival in June at the Recreation Ground in Pitlochry. As a community action trust dedicated to working with local people, community groups, businesses, Perth and Kinross Council and other stakeholders to help support a thriving and aPracQve town that is resilient and enjoys sustainable growth, we believe this event is a valuable asset to our community. The Heartland Festival provides considerable benefits to the area in a number of ways. It supports the local economy by attracting visitors to the area, boosting local businesses including hotels, cafes, and shops. Last year’s event generated an estimated economic boost of more than £2 million which is hugely significant. The festival promotes community cohesion by providing a family-friendly, inclusive event that fosters a sense of pride in our local area and has put Pitlochry on the map to a whole new generation of visitors and music lovers. Heartland also creates a number of volunteering opportunities for people to get involved with, providing experience, training and an unmatched camaraderie for those who help out. Several local community groups and organisations have also volunteered at the event, and were delighted to receive generous donations for their efforts. Through the Discovery Stage, the Heartland Festival provides a platform to showcase home-grown local talent, and the event also welcomes a number of local vendors and suppliers, including Pitlochry’s very own Wasted Degrees brewery and many others. We believe the organisers have a solid plan and the necessary experience to once again deliver a safe, successful, and high-quality event in Pitlochry that will provide joy and entertainment to thousands of people. Having worked closely with the team at Heartland over the past two events, we know that they go above and beyond the legal requirements of holding such an event to ensure that it is the best possible experience for everyone, and we are delighted to support it once again. We would therefore encourage the council to support the Heartland Festival to ensure its ongoing success in what is currently a difficult operating environment for many in the events industry. Yours sincerely, Judith Dingwall Page 52 of 68
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1 Civic Licensing From: Stew Hall Sent: 15 February 2026 12:19 To: Civic Licensing Subject: Heartland Festival Pitlochry CAUTION: This email originated from an external organisation. Do not follow guidance, click links, or open attachments unless you have verified the sender and know the content is safe. Hi there, I am a Trustee with the Pitlochry Community Action Trust, a local resident of Pitlochry, an ex soldier & Police Officer. When the initial idea of a music Festival was voiced in our Community, I observed a strong & overwhelming Community support, I grew up in & around Pitlochry in the 1960's & 70's, activities for young people were sparse to say the least, apart from after school classes such as learning the Chanter & Bagpipes. Since year 1, I have heard nothing negative about the Festival, but so much strong positive support from all ages here & in the locality. We are now very lucky to benefit from the amazing Theatre, Etape cycle Event & the Enchanted Forest, and will soon have more private & affordable housing and a new stronger School Campus with Leisure facilities for all. Along with the popular & respectful Music Festival, Pitlochry must be the envy of many a Community, within Scotland & overseas. The added bonuses are that the Event contributes to the financial wellbeing of Pitlochry, Perth & Kinross & Scotland thanks to visitors & tourists utilising the shops, cafe's, Pub's, Hotels & Restaurants. Locals also benefit from a feeling of worth & pride; by helping as stewards, litter pickers & customers. Thanks to PKC & the Festival organisers, we should all be very proud of a very well organised & respectful of others 2 day music festival. Stewart Hall Page 53 of 68
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1 Civic Licensing From: Sent: 27 January 2026 17:12 To: Civic Licensing Subject: Heartland Festival CAUTION: This email originated from an external organisation. Do not follow guidance, click links, or open attachments unless you have verified the sender and know the content is safe. Hello there. I'm not sure if I'm addressing this comment to the correct department. If it isn't relevant to yourselves, I would appreciate if you could let me know who would be the relevant people to contact, as I feel really strongly about this matter. I am 62 years old. I live in Muir of Ord, North of Inverness. I love music and have attended music festivals most of my adult life. I had kind of given up on them latterly, thinking it was mostly for younger people. In 2024 a friend suggested going to Heartland Festival in Pitlochry. I love the area but was sceptical. After purchasing tickets, I started following the Heartland Festival on social media. I was immediately impressed with the communication from the festivals organisers. They encouraged questions and answered them all honestly, with a level of patience I have never experienced before. They said that they wanted it to be a family friendly festival. I thought to myself, "You'll be lucky to achieve that." After attending, I stood corrected. Attending in 2024 was fantastic. It was a very friendly family atmosphere. Kids and dogs! Not my first choice but it was a joy to see. I didn't see any antisocial behaviour, which, being honest, with a large crowd, would be expected. I attended the Human League at Slessor Gardens in Dundee this year in July. Whilst it was quite enjoyable organisationally, it's professionalism and set up and service was honestly not in the same league as the Heartland Festival. Food and drink and toilets didn't compare favourably in comparison to Heartland. ( Visit the Heartland Festival's Facebook group page and you will see 100's of people saying that the toilets are the cleanest and best looked after that they've ever experienced.) Also at Dundee I witnessed older drunk? males getting escorted from the crowd. This was what potentially would put me off attending such an event. Anyway Heartland Festival 2024 was wonderful and quite frankly I thought that Pitlochry would have been more than appreciative of what the organisers had done for their town. I decided that I was definitely going to go to Heartland Festival 2025. I thought it would struggle to live up to 2024 as the online comments after 2025 had been so complimentary, meaning that it was likely to be much busier. I went. It was fantastic. Much busier, just as well organised! The online advice and customer questions and feedback prior to the event were again first class, unparalleled in my personal experience. The family friendly feel was there again, no trouble, fantastic toilets. No evidence of drunk idiots. No signs of drug use. I spoke to a few police constables, who were beyond pleasant and helpful. I can't overstate the feelgood factor, but don't take my word, just check out the, beyond positive, feedback on the Heartland Festival Facebook page. So the motivation for contacting you, is I heard on the Heartland Festival Facebook page, of someone making a complaint about it. I don't know exactly what the complaint was, but I wanted to feedback what it was that made me ignore a local (to me) Festival at Belladrum in favour of attending the You don't often get email from . Learn why this is important Page 54 of 68
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2 Heartland Festival in Pitlochry. I might add that Pitlochry gets it's pound of flesh by increasing hotel prices and the festival obviously takes a lot of money into the area. Personally, in an ideal world,I would like to see the Heartland Festival take place further North, but will continue to attend as long as I am fit to. What a gem the organisers are and I think Pitlochry should move mountains to safeguard this event. Sorry for writing 'War &Peace' but I think you'll be able to gauge how strongly I feel on the matter. Perth and Kinross should be very grateful in my opinion. Maybe a bit more attention to Slessor Gardens in the future. Maybe get the organisers of that event to attend Heartland Festival to get a few pointers on what I perceived as service and customer satisfaction before profit. Regards Archie Forbes Page 55 of 68
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1 Civic Licensing From: Stefanie MacLeod Sent: 27 January 2026 21:41 To: Civic Licensing Subject: Heartland festival Pitlochry [You don't often get email from . Learn why this is important at hftps://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdenfificafion ] CAUTION: This email originated from an external organisafion. Do not follow guidance, click links, or open aftachments unless you have verified the sender and know the content is safe. Hi, As someone who grew up in Crieff, Perthshire and loves the country, I thoroughly enjoyed aftending the Heartland fesfival last year with my husband and 3 children . It was our first year aftending but we enjoyed it so much we purchased our fickets for this year as soon as they became available. One of the reasons why I found it so enjoyable was the idillic sefting and the family friendly atmosphere. We stayed the full weekend, enjoying not only the fesfival but Pitlochry itself. The town was bustling and buzzing with excitement, things the tourism industry in these small towns haven’t seen for a long fime. Local businesses including hotels, restaurants, bars, shops etc all hugely financially benefifted from such an event. Although I grew up in Crieff, Pitlochry wasn’t somewhere I was familiar with but as a result of visifing for the fesfival, we have since been back a couple of fimes for visits. I think any objecfions to the fesfival are unfounded and completely irrafional and are the unsupported views of very single minded people who only care about themselves. I was saddened to hear these and felt I had a duty to get in touch myself. Kind regards Stefanie MacLeod Sent from my iPhone Page 56 of 68
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1 Civic Licensing From: Bruce Patterson Sent: 28 January 2026 16:34 To: Civic Licensing Subject: Heartland Music Festival CAUTION: This email originated from an external organisation. Do not follow guidance, click links, or open attachments unless you have verified the sender and know the content is safe. Pavilion User Groups (Working to make Pitlochry and even better place to be) Dear Sirs, We note the license application for the Heartland Festival has been posted at the Recreation Ground, Pitlochry. Pavilion User Groups (PUGs) would like to add their support to the application and the ongoing success of the Festival. This event brings a great deal of attention to the Recreation Ground and has increased the number of daily visitors to the play park area and the sports facilities. This is a direct result of returning visitors who had attended the Festival. In 2026, we will be taking on the lease for the Pavilion, bringing it under community management. Our fundraising efforts have been enhanced through a community payback from the Heartland Festival in the form of a financial donation. We have used this money to match and leverage funding from other sources, meaning we can now upgrade the building into an important community asset to benefit the town in a variety of ways. As a future community payback resource, the Festival will allow us to continue to improve facilities at the Recreation Ground for residents and visitors on a year-round basis. Regards, Bruce Patterson (Chair PUGs) Page 57 of 68
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1 Civic Licensing From: Alan Crombie Sent: 30 January 2026 16:02 To: Civic Licensing Cc: Judith Dingwall Subject: Heartland Festival 2026 CAUTION: This email originated from an external organisation. Do not follow guidance, click links, or open attachments unless you have verified the sender and know the content is safe. Sir, Madam, I understand that an individual, who does not make their name public, has been campaigning against and objecting to this year’s Heartland Festival. I am writing as someone who has lived and worked in the Pitlochry area for many years to give my wholehearted support to Heartland Festival’s application. I have no objection to you making my name and this email public. My, now adult children, complain that there was “nothing but School, Scouts, salmon and serving in cafes” in Pitlochry. Now, Heartland brings them back here! The eclectic range of performers attracts a range of ages and interests locally and nation-wide. Heartland Festival has put Pitlochry on the map and in the news without resorting to “tweed and tartan” nostalgia and brought in a much younger set of visitors than Pitlochry Festival Theatre, the scenery and the off-A9 eateries. The main stage brought leading performers into the hills away from the big city venues while the Discovery Stage has supported new and upcoming talent across a range of musical genres from traditional to trendy. This will encourage a younger generation to see Perthshire and the entertainment industry as attractive places to work, build a career and bring up a family. There is a significant direct positive impact on the local Pitlochry and Highland Perthshire, economy with many thousands of visitors at the event itself staying, dining and spending locally. Heartland Festival distributed its surpluses to many local charities, organisations and events enhancing Highland Perthshire’s local culture. More widely, there are many indirect benefits as the younger generations mature and make return visits bringing their children on longer visits camping, caravanning, B-n-B-ing. The economy of Perth and Kinross, and Tayside generally also benefit as festivalgoers pass through. I am well aware that there are some negative impacts, but they are minor and can mediated. The ten o’clock curfew and sensitive placing of stages has mitigated the perceived noise problem and further tweaks based on last year’s experiences will do more. Parking and Travel problems occur throughout the season but Heartland You don't often get email from . Learn why this is important Page 58 of 68
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2 weekend is no worse than the Highland Games and a lot better than the Etape. Litter on the Recreation Gound is hardly significant as attendees are generally well behaved and local volunteers scour the field the day after the event. This along with other volunteer positions such as box office, scanning entry tickets, the administration of wrist bands, queue management and general stewarding, provides some real-world experience for local teenagers and reinforces their work ethic as they see the reward flowing back as donations to their local organisations as well as their own freebie tickets. I should also like to draw your attention to the recent announcement (see The Courier 29/12025) that Heartland Festival has been nominated for Festival of the Year. This clearly shows that it has done much to raise the profile of Pitlochry and Highland Perthshire. In summary, Heartland Festival is a multi-generational cultural event worth supporting as it generates economic, cultural, educational and social benefits to the organisations and people of Pitlochry, Perth and Kinross and Scotland. I, along with many local organisations, strongly support it. Alan Crombie 18 Duff Avenue, Moulin, Pitlochry PH16 5EN Page 59 of 68
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1 Civic Licensing From: Dawn Stewart Sent: 26 May 2026 10:42 To: Karen Engelberts Subject: Heartland Environmental Health Summary Heartland Festival was first held in 2024 with no complaints with regards to noise being received by the Environmental Health Team Department (EH) during or after the event. Whilst no noise mapping was carried out prior to the event, EH were in attendance and carried out sound checks with the organisers noise consultant prior to the first band coming on stage. Sound checks were carried out at the perimeter of festival ground at Ferry Crescent and in the area known as the bleachers below Bruach Lane. The property at the entrance to the Recreation ground, known as Parkview was noted on the Councils mapping system as a short-term-let property. Regular noise measurements were carried out during the event during walk rounds from Ferry Crescent, Port-na-Craig, Foss Road, Atholl Road, Bruach Lane, Ferry Road. Attempts to carry out noise measurements at a property on Bruach Lane overlooking the festival site were denied by the property owner. EH officers later met with the residents of the property who apologised for denying access believing that we were festival goers trying to get access to the site. The residents advised that they were not disturbed by the noise and were heading into the festival grounds to enjoy the event. All measurements taken during the event by both the EH team and the organisers noise consultant met the level in the Noise Councils Code of Practice on Noise Control at Concerts 1995. 2025 – again no complaints were received by the EH team during the event. The EH team were made aware on the day of the festival that the property known as Parkview was occupied as a residential property. Attempts were made to undertake measurements at this property but there was no one in residence at the time. Whilst the EH team attempted to take measurements as close to the property as possible, due to the positioning of the fairground rides such as the Ferris Wheel and associated generators, a clean measurement of the music noise level was not possible. All other measurements taken during the event met with the Code of Practice level. The occupier of Parkview made contact with the EH Team on 25 September 2025. Full Consultee Response EH contacted the occupier of Parkview via emails and a follow up phone call on 14 October 2025. Concerns regarding noise were discussed and the occupier was advised that all points raised would be discussed with the event organiser. It was confirmed that the occupier was not in residence during the weekend. Subsequent follow up discussions and correspondence with the event organiser have resulted in the engagement of KSG Acoustics who have undertaken sound mapping to plot the spread of music noise from the Front of House position. This has identified a number of changes needed to comply with the Code of Practice level at the property Parkview. These include: a reduction in the stage size, a change to the stage orientation, a change to the speaker system to reduce the splay allowing a more directional output and a reduction of the sound level at the Front of House position. 3 Page 61 of 68
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2 KSG will be in attendance throughout the event and will undertake sound checks and regular noise measurements in conjunction with EH officers, with an undertaken given that sound levels will be adjusted should the Code of Practice levels not be met. This may be necessary, as it is accepted that predicted levels may be influenced by factors such as temperature and wind conditions, audience numbers etc. An updated Noise Management Plan has been developed by KSG and submitted to the SAG group. A review by EH has noted a couple of points which need to be addressed and as such a revised NMP is awaited. During discussions with KSG it was suggested that they engage with the resident of Parkview, who had advised during the call on 14 October that he would be happy for noise measurements to be undertaken at the property. Confirmation of this is awaited prior to the EH team making contact with the resident of Parkview. It has also been confirmed that this will be the last year that the Heartland Festival will be held on Pitlochry Recreation ground as the festival has outgrown the site. Plans have been advertised for a move to the site in Ballinluig which is being used for parking at this year's event. Dawn Stewart AMIOA Environmental Health Officer Housing & Communities Perth & Kinross Council Pullar House 35 Kinnoull Street Perth PH1 5GD Tel: Page 62 of 68
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1 Civic Licensing From: Dave Stubbs Sent: 25 May 2026 13:31 To: Karen Engelberts Subject: RE: Heartland Festival Hi Karen, Thank you for making Community Greenspace aware of the objections to the Heartland Festival. I can provide feedback in relation to the Jeiger objection in respect of the section 11 exemption (point 6) and briefly in relation to otters and other species (points 10 and 11 . . . ). Section 11 Exemption Order. It is recognised that due to the nature and scale of the Heartland Festival, and because a charge is levied for admission, the public’s right of responsible access to the core path in particular and to the park in general will be restricted during the event. It would be competent for the Council, following an application or at our own initiative, to make a Section 11 order, to formally exempt the land from access rights for the event. Such orders have been made for the G8 Summit, the Ryder Cup, T in the Park (one year only) and a small number of other events. It is not a requirement, and many other events go ahead without one. The public understand that, irrespective of access rights, they won’t be allowed in without a ticket. Alternative paths and play facilities are available elsewhere in the town. As a learning point from previous years, we could signpost these and ask the organiser to ensure event stewards are briefed. There may be a more serious issue in relation to wildlife disturbance. The venue is adjacent to the River Tay SAC, and it is likely that otters, a European protected species (and bats) may be present. I sought further advice on this from our Planning Officer Robert Wills and, following that, called Mr Howie from Heartland to suggest he take advice from Nature Scot’s licencing team, providing contacts for him to follow up. Dave Stubbs. From: Robert Wills Sent: 04 May 2026 11:01 To: Dave Stubbs ; Joanna Dick Cc: PKC Biodiversity Subject: RE: Heartland Festival Hi Dave There is highly likely to be otters on this stretch of the river, the impacts will differ depending on how they’re using it. The objector is right that an HRA should be carried out to assess the impacts on the Tay SAC. Due to the high population the main impact is however going to be on the otter as a protected European Species (information for both can be gathered at the same time). I would also extend this to bats subject to proximity of the trees. A licence will be needed for the otters if it’s going to disturb them in their resting place or disrupting their route to resting places. Page 63 of 68
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2 As Joanna’s away I would suggest getting in touch with the NatureScot licensing team 01463 725364 for a quicker definitive answer. Expect to have to carry out a survey and mitigation around timing, where fencing is placed, and any overnight security lighting, it will depend on survey findings and recommendations. regards Robert Wills Planning Officer Perth & Kinross Council www.pkc.gov.uk Page 64 of 68
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1 Civic Licensing From: James Watson Sent: 29 May 2026 08:02 To: Karen Engelberts Subject: FW: Heartland Festival Attachments: TM Committee Briefing Note 2026.docx Hi Karen Please see the attached, Network Team Report for the Heartland Festival Kind Regards Jim James Watson | Roads Network Superintendent | Roads Network Management | Environment and Infrastructure | Perth & Kinross Council. Email: | Tel: | Mob: Pullar House, 35 Kinnoull Street | Perth | PH1 5GD | Scotland Perth and Kinross Council Comhairle Pheairt is Cheann Rois www.pkc.gov.uk Page 65 of 68
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Background Heartland Festival is an established event that has been delivered successfully over the past two years within the Recreation Ground and Dundarach Field, Pitlochry. However, due to the ongoing Tesco development within Dundarach Field, which is now under construction, the event can no longer utilise this area for parking purposes. As a result, the organiser has been required to develop a revised parking and traffic management strategy for the 2026 event. Traffic Management and Parking Strategy - Traffic Subgroup In response to the loss of parking provision at Dundarach Field, the event organiser requested the establishment of a Traffic Subgroup to consider alternative arrangements. The subgroup was subsequently formed and included representation from: Perth & Kinross Council (PKC), BEAR Scotland North West, Traffic Scotland, Police Scotland and Alba Traffic Management. The subgroup met on a few occasions to review and assess all feasible local parking options, including both on-street and off-street capacity. Following detailed consideration, the subgroup concluded that the event could not safely rely solely on the limited existing parking provision within Pitlochry; especially during the peak tourist season, when parking demand is already high. In addition, there is an element of uncertainty associated with traffic behaviour due to the forthcoming BEAR NW piling works on the A924 – A9(T) Pitlochry southbound to northbound off-slip road, which requires the road to be closed. This closure’s impact is an unknown but has the potential to increase the risk of congestion within the town. These unknown traffic behaviours and the additional event traffic influenced the group to ask the Organiser to consider other alternatives. Revised Traffic Management Plan In response to this request, the organiser has undertaken a comprehensive revision of the Traffic Management Plan (TMP), supported by significant additional investment. The revised TMP includes the following measures: Increased Public Transport Provision Enhanced promotion and availability of public transport options to reduce reliance on private vehicles. Expanded Shuttle Bus Operations A significant increase in shuttle bus services to facilitate transport between remote parking locations and the event site. Remote Park & Ride Facility Introduction of a dedicated Park & Ride site located outwith Pitlochry, near Ballinluig, supported by high-frequency shuttle services. These measures are intended to significantly reduce the volume of event-related traffic entering Pitlochry, minimise pressure on the existing on-street and off-street parking, Page 66 of 68
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reduce the risk of congestion within the town centre and surrounding road network and importantly, address the community concerns regarding traffic impact and accessibility during the event. Summary Due to the loss of Dundarach Field for parking, the organiser has worked collaboratively with key stakeholders through the Traffic Subgroup to develop a revised and robust traffic management strategy. The introduction of enhanced public transport, increased shuttle services, and a remote Park & Ride facility represents a significant shift in approach, aimed at mitigating the identified risks and supporting the safe operation of the event within Pitlochry. Page 67 of 68
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