The £36m Blairgowrie Recreation Centre will be Scotland’s first ultra-low energy swimming pool and leisure centre.

Designed by Holmes Miller architects, the building is only the third in the UK – to achieve Passivhaus certification, after Willmott Dixon’s £44m leisure centre project in Staines-upon-Thames, Surrey and Kier’s St Sidwells Point in Exter, which was the first.

A replacement for the Perthshire town’s current 41-year old facility, the development is being funded by Perth and Kinross Council and delivered through Hub East Central Scotland.

As well as a  six-lane competition swimming pool, the new centre will feature a games hall, sports hall, dance studio, fitness suite and classroom space and an external all-weather sports pitch.

It will deliver the physical education curriculum for Blairgowrie High School, while also providing leisure facilities to the local community.