Alan scoops top industry gong
Alan Robertson A Perth site manager has secured his 16th top industry award.
Alan Robertson from Stephen Homes has picked up a regional quality award from NHBC’s Pride in the Job awards for his management of the Clathymore housing development near Gleneagles.
Having joined the housebuilder as an apprentice when he was 16, Alan has gone on to win 16 pride in the job awards for his role at the firm’s Balgarvie development in Scone.
The awards look to celebrate the “exceptional contribution”site managers make to the quality of new homes being built.
This comes as Alan was voted the first Scottish-only builder to receive a five-star rating in the Homes for Scotland customer satisfaction survey.
Alan, who received his first award back in 2011, said: “This award recognises the work of the entire team and the fact that we have received consistent praise from NHBC makes me very proud but this award is not just for me - every member of the Clathymore team has excelled, from electricians, plumbers and bricklayers to joiners, painters and forklift divers.” Historic stones - some worth thousands of pounds - have been stolen from gardens across Perthshire.
Over the past few weeks, vintage mill stones, medieval stone knocking pots and stone planters have been taken from people’s gardens.
The incidents have happened in Comrie, Rait and Blairgowrie.
Officers are refusing to rule out a link between the thefts, despite the geographical spread of where the incidents took place.
Police officers investigating the three incidents say the stones are worth a lot of money, and are asking members of the public with more information to come forward.
A spokesperson for Police Scotland’s Tayside division said: “Police Scotland is appealing for information about three thefts of unusual but similar items across Perth and Kinross.
“Firstly, sometime between 3pm on Tuesday, July 16 and Wednesday, July 24, two vintage mill stones were taken from a garden in South Crieff Road, Comrie.
“These are described as three feet in diameter and five inches thick.
“They are heavy and although could be lifted by one person, they could not be carried far and would need a vehicle to take them any distance.
“These items are deceptively valuable, and the persons who took them may have had