Kingdom completes 25-home Crieff housing phase

Kingdom Housing Association has confirmed the completion of 25 mid-market rental homes at Broich Road in Crieff, Perthshire, in the latest phase of a development delivered with Ogilvie Homes. The homes were completed in September 2026 and form the concluding 25 properties of a 75-home affordable housing programme on the developer’s wider residential site. The completion was highlighted in new sector reporting on 9 November.

The latest properties are two-, three-, and four-bedroom houses, with a mix of terraces, semi-detached homes, and bungalows. Kingdom’s project record identifies six two-bedroom terraced houses, four two-bedroom semi-detached houses, three three-bedroom terraces, six three-bedroom semi-detached houses, two four-bedroom semi-detached houses, and four two-bedroom bungalows. The variety allows the landlord to offer different household sizes within the same phase rather than repeating one standard plot arrangement.

Kingdom’s account separates the new 25-home mid-market rental phase from the earlier affordable housing it has delivered with Ogilvie Homes on Broich Road. The preceding programme comprised 46 social-rented properties and four additional mid-market homes completed between 2022 and 2024. Together with the latest phase, those properties make up the reported total of 75. This figure refers to the Ogilvie-linked development, not every Kingdom scheme elsewhere along Broich Road.

The housebuilding contract was recorded well before completion. A Public Contracts Scotland award notice identifies Ogilvie Homes as contractor, a contract conclusion date of 20 June 2025, and an award value of £5,367,306 excluding VAT. That figure is the amount declared in the procurement record and should not be mistaken for a final audited construction outturn. It also relates to this phase, not the full value of every home delivered across the 75-property programme.

The notice explains that the land was owned by the developer and that the acquisition arrangement required design and build work to be awarded to Ogilvie Homes. Kingdom consequently used a negotiated procedure without an earlier published competition notice. The procurement description identifies affordable housing delivery in partnership with Perth and Kinross Council. It does not establish a separate open tender for another contractor to build the completed phase.

Each of the latest 25 homes was designed against Kingdom’s own housing standards and the Housing for Varying Needs guidance. The latter sets out an adaptable approach to domestic layouts, circulation, and household requirements, although the published phase schedule does not designate these four bungalows as wheelchair-adapted dwellings. Specific accessibility provisions should therefore be taken from the approved plot designs rather than inferred from the presence of single-storey homes.

Kingdom reports that the latest phase meets the Building Control Silver sustainability standard and carries an energy rating of B, within the 81–91 rating band used in its development record. The homes have photovoltaic panels and gas central heating. Solar panels can provide part of a household’s electricity demand, but the project record does not provide generation capacity, battery specifications, or measured electricity output. Those details cannot be inferred from the EPC band alone.

An EPC rating of B reflects the modelled energy performance of each home under the assessment method used for domestic buildings. The rating accounts for the building and its services rather than providing a record of electricity or gas consumed by individual tenants. The combination of roof-mounted photovoltaics and gas central heating therefore represents two separate elements of the energy specification, with actual operating costs depending on household demand and use.

Broich Road has been developed in successive housing phases, with earlier properties handed over while later sections progressed through design and construction. The first phase provided two- to four-bedroom housing and accessible accommodation, while subsequent delivery added further family houses and a smaller mid-market element. Earlier phases incorporated measures including wastewater heat recovery; the newly completed 25 properties are specified with photovoltaic panels, gas heating, and a Silver sustainability rating.

The mid-market tenure differs from the social-rented properties delivered earlier, although both sit within the affordable housing provision attached to Ogilvie’s broader private development. The latest houses give Kingdom a different rental offer alongside the earlier socially rented homes, spanning small families through to larger households. Completion confirms the physical delivery of these dwellings; occupation, individual rental levels, and tenancy allocation are separate matters administered by the landlord.

Kingdom and the Scottish Government financed the programme according to the completion reporting, while the contractor was appointed through the development acquisition arrangement. The £5.37m contract award provides a recorded procurement value for the latest phase; it is distinct from the total funding of the 75-home programme. The phased structure also means that earlier homes were delivered under different dates and agreements, rather than one simultaneous 75-house construction contract.

Completion in September closes the reported Ogilvie-linked affordable housing sequence at Broich Road, with 25 additional mid-market properties joining 50 previously delivered homes. Kingdom’s housing records establish the phase sizes and the latest properties’ energy rating, while the procurement notice identifies the original contractor and contract value. No further construction phase within this 75-home programme has been identified in the current completion material.