Core Path and Right of Way Stopping Up and Diversion Orders

Outdoor access rights and responsibilities

Core paths and public rights of way are important and safeguarded by legislation.

Developers are required to respect their purpose and look to incorporate them within their design and landscaping. This can result in new routes, sections of longer routes being diverted, or stopping up an entire path being proposed.

Section 208 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland Act 1997) provides for the stopping up and diversion of core paths and rights of way where necessary to enable the development to be carried out in accordance with planning permission. Perth and Kinross Council has agreed to promote the orders set out below. The process allows a period of 28 days for any objections or representations to be made to proposed stopping up and diversion orders.

Any objection made and not withdrawn will be forwarded to Scottish Ministers for decision through local inquiry. Any objection must be made in writing with full contact details including name and address and must clearly state the order the objection relates to and reason for objecting. It must be sent to the Strategic Lead - Legal and Governance, Perth and Kinross Council, Council Building, 2 High Street, Perth, PH1 5PH or by email to [email protected] within 28 days of being published.

Current Stopping up and Diversion orders

SCON/7 and Right of Way 39/7

Date of publication: 17 April 2026
Last date for objection/representation: 15 May 2026

A section of core path SCON/7 and right of way 39/7 is proposed to be stopped up and diverted for the development of a driving range and golf academy building and shop at Murrayshall House Hotel, Murrayshall, Perth. The outfield area of the new driving range includes part of core path SCON/7 and right of way 39/7. Path users, including horses, would be at risk of being struck by golf balls without the stopping up and diversion of the section of path. As well as the order, the applicant has provided a Justification Statement and an Overview Plan as additional information.