Tuesday 6 May 2026
Monthly Residents Meeting
Your chance to raise issues, hear updates from the developers, and help decide what happens next in the neighbourhood. Held in the community hub on Bertha Park Drive. Tea provided.
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Next residents meeting
Tuesday 6 May
7:00pm — Community Hub, Bertha Park Drive
Agenda covers Phase 4 planning, the state of the access road off the A9, and the new play area consultation. You don't need to register. Just show up.
What's happening inside
Here's what's on this month. (We always overcommit and it always works out.)
Tuesday 6 May 2026
Your chance to raise issues, hear updates from the developers, and help decide what happens next in the neighbourhood. Held in the community hub on Bertha Park Drive. Tea provided.
Saturday 10 May 2026
We're taking care of the footpaths around the River Almond. Meet at the northern car park at 10am. Bags and gloves provided. Kids very welcome — there's a juice and biscuit break at 11.
Friday 16 May 2026
Teams of four, £2 entry per person, prizes worth bragging about. The Steadings have agreed to open their function room for us. Doors at 7pm, questions at 7:30. No specialist knowledge required.
Wednesday 21 May 2026
The Phase 4 planning application affects everyone on the eastern side of the development. We're holding a workshop to help you understand what's proposed and how to make your views count before the deadline.
The people who live here
We moved here knowing nobody. Within three months of joining the residents group, we had a babysitter, a dentist recommendation, and a standing invitation to Sunday lunch next door.
I came to my first meeting fully expecting to be the person in the back row who says nothing. Now I'm on the planning subcommittee. Nobody made me do it — it just turned out to matter.
The litter picks sound boring when you describe them. They're not. They're an hour of actually getting to know the people you wave at on the school run.
About this place
Bertha Park is the largest new housing development in Perth in decades. A few thousand homes being built over fifteen years, a new school, new roads, a new neighbourhood taking shape in real time. Which means you moved here before it was finished — before the community centre was open, before the shops came, before anyone knew who their neighbours were.
"A community isn't something that gets handed to you with your keys. You make it."
The residents group started in someone's living room in 2022. A dozen people who'd all moved in that summer and realised they had the same questions and nobody to ask them to. We started keeping notes, asking questions at council meetings, and knocking on doors. That's still what we do.
We're a volunteer organisation. Nobody's paid. Nobody has a title they care about. The only qualification required is that you live here and you give a damn. If you've got an hour a month, you've got enough to contribute something meaningful.
Right now we're working on the Phase 4 planning response, lobbying for a proper pedestrian crossing on the A9 slip road, and trying to get a community allotment space agreed before the land gets allocated to something else. If any of that sounds like your kind of problem, the door really is open.
Step inside
Bring nothing except yourself. No agenda required, no prior knowledge, no commitment beyond one evening. We meet in the community hub on Bertha Park Drive, every first Tuesday of the month.
Say hello before you arrive