Escape Room Plan for St John Street; Residents Ask Whether Broxden Already Counts
Planning application to turn a shop into escape rooms is validated.
Find the key. Find the exit. Find parking. Photo: Hudson Bloom, “Escape Room - "The Expedition" (Escape Quest Bethesda)”, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
PERTH — A planning application to turn 23 St John Street from retail into escape rooms has been validated, prompting locals to point out that Perth has been running a free escape room for years: it is called “trying to leave the Broxden roundabout”.
Puzzles reportedly under consideration include “Find a Parking Space on a Saturday”, “Leave Before the Rain Starts” and the fiendish “Get Out of Scott Street Car Park This Week”, which designers admit is currently unsolvable.
The real story: Real: planning application 26/01476/FLL, change of use from retail to escape rooms, 23 St John Street Perth, validated 23 Oct 2026.
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Can the first room be the Broxden roundabout? I’ll pay double.
— Robbie H., North Muirton, 24 October 2026 -
Done it already. Took me 47 minutes to get out of the Thimblerow car park.
— Jen T., Scone, 24 October 2026 -
Can the first room be the Broxden roundabout? I'll pay double.
— Robbie H., North Muirton, 27 October 2026
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