diff --git a/docs/source/_templates/layout.html b/docs/source/_templates/layout.html
deleted file mode 100644
index 47648be7f6..0000000000
--- a/docs/source/_templates/layout.html
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,73 +0,0 @@
-{% extends "!layout.html" %} {%- block extrabody %}
-
-<div class="wy-grid-header">
-  <div class="wy-header-logo">
-    {%- set _logo_url = logo_url|default(pathto('_static/' + (logo or ""), 1))
-    %} {%- set _root_doc = root_doc|default(master_doc) %}
-    <a href="{{ pathto(_root_doc) }}">
-      <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kedro-org/kedro-brand-identity/main/horizontal/color/kedro-horizontal-color-on-light.svg" class="logo" alt="{{ _('Logo') }}" />
-    </a>
-  </div>
-
-  <div class="wy-main-nav">
-    <a href="/" class="active">Kedro</a>
-    <a href="https://docs.kedro.org/projects/kedro-viz/en/stable/">Kedro-Viz</a>
-    <a href="https://docs.kedro.org/projects/kedro-datasets">Kedro-Datasets</a>
-  </div>
-
-  {%- include "searchbox.html" %}
-</div>
-
-{% endblock %}
-
-{%- block extrahead %}
-<script type="text/javascript">
-
-  window.heap=window.heap||[],heap.load=function(e,t){window.heap.appid=e,window.heap.config=t=t||{};var r=document.createElement("script");r.type="text/javascript",r.async=!0,r.src="https://cdn.heapanalytics.com/js/heap-"+e+".js";var a=document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0];a.parentNode.insertBefore(r,a);for(var n=function(e){return function(){heap.push([e].concat(Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments,0)))}},p=["addEventProperties","addUserProperties","clearEventProperties","identify","resetIdentity","removeEventProperty","setEventProperties","track","unsetEventProperty"],o=0;o<p.length;o++)heap[p[o]]=n(p[o])};
-  heap.load({{ "2164194004" | env_override }});{# 2164194004 coresponds to the Development environment #}
-
-  //inline styling for read-the-docs flyout
-  document.documentElement.style.setProperty('--readthedocs-flyout-font-size', '0.9em');
-
-  document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function() {
-
-    function showReadTheDocsSearch() {
-    const searchEvent = new CustomEvent("readthedocs-search-show");
-    document.dispatchEvent(searchEvent);
-    }
-
-    // Activate read-the-docs search when user focuses on search
-    document.querySelector('div[role="search"] form input').addEventListener("focus", showReadTheDocsSearch);
-
-    // Add keyboard event listener for Cmd+K (Mac) or Ctrl+K (Windows)
-    document.addEventListener("keydown", function(e) {
-      if ((e.key === 'k' || e.key === 'K') && (e.metaKey || e.ctrlKey)) {
-        e.preventDefault();
-        showReadTheDocsSearch();
-      }
-    });
-
-    // Clone main nav into the sidebar
-    var sidebarSearch = document.querySelector('.wy-side-nav-search div[role="search"]');
-    sidebarSearch.parentNode.insertBefore(document.querySelector('.wy-main-nav').cloneNode(true), sidebarSearch);
-
-    // Prepend close button to mobile header
-    var closeBtn = document.createElement("span");
-    closeBtn.dataset.toggle = 'wy-nav-top';
-    closeBtn.classList.add('wy-nav-top-close');
-    document.querySelector('.wy-nav-top').prepend(closeBtn);
-
-    // Prepend open button to mobile header
-      var openBtn = document.createElement("span");
-      openBtn.dataset.toggle = 'wy-nav-top';
-      openBtn.classList.add('wy-nav-top-open');
-      document.querySelector('.wy-nav-top').prepend(openBtn);
-  });
-</script>
-
-
-<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://kedro-shared-files.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/qb1-sphinx-rtd.css" type="text/css"
-/>
-<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://kedro-shared-files.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/theme-overrides.css" type="text/css"
-/>
-{% endblock %}
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index 983bcd7d2d..a829a08dad 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import importlib
-import os
 import re
 import sys
 from inspect import getmembers, isclass, isfunction
@@ -202,7 +201,7 @@
 # The theme to use for HTML and HTML Help pages.  See the documentation for
 # a list of builtin themes.
 #
-html_theme = "sphinx_rtd_theme"
+html_theme = "kedro-sphinx-theme"
 here = Path(__file__).parent.absolute()
 
 # Theme options are theme-specific and customise the look and feel of a theme
@@ -243,9 +242,9 @@
     "https://github.com/kedro-org/kedro/blob/main/kedro/templates/project/%7B%7B%20cookiecutter.repo_name%20%7D%7D/.flake8",
 ]
 
-# retry before render a link broken (fix for "too many requests")
-linkcheck_retries = 5
-linkcheck_rate_limit_timeout = 2.0
+# Comment out settings to fix Client Rate Limit Error 429
+linkcheck_retries = 3
+# linkcheck_rate_limit_timeout = 2.0
 
 html_context = {
     "display_github": True,
@@ -493,41 +492,8 @@ def autodoc_process_docstring(app, what, name, obj, options, lines):  # noqa: PL
     remove_arrows_in_examples(lines)
 
 
-def env_override(default_appid):
-    build_version = os.getenv("READTHEDOCS_VERSION")
-
-    if build_version == "latest":
-        return os.environ["HEAP_APPID_QA"]
-    if build_version == "stable":
-        return os.environ["HEAP_APPID_PROD"]
-
-    return default_appid  # default to Development for local builds
-
-
-def _add_jinja_filters(app):
-    # https://github.com/crate/crate/issues/10833
-    from sphinx.builders.latex import LaTeXBuilder
-    from sphinx.builders.linkcheck import CheckExternalLinksBuilder
-
-    # LaTeXBuilder is used in the PDF docs build,
-    # and it doesn't have attribute 'templates'
-    if not (isinstance(app.builder, (LaTeXBuilder, CheckExternalLinksBuilder))):
-        app.builder.templates.environment.filters["env_override"] = env_override
-
-
-def _override_permalinks_icon(app):
-    # https://github.com/readthedocs/sphinx_rtd_theme/issues/98#issuecomment-1503211439
-    app.config.html_permalinks_icon = "¶"
-
-
 def setup(app):
-    app.connect("builder-inited", _add_jinja_filters)
-    app.connect("builder-inited", _override_permalinks_icon)
     app.connect("autodoc-process-docstring", autodoc_process_docstring)
-    app.add_css_file("css/qb1-sphinx-rtd.css")
-    # fix a bug with table wraps in Read the Docs Sphinx theme:
-    # https://rackerlabs.github.io/docs-rackspace/tools/rtd-tables.html
-    app.add_css_file("css/theme-overrides.css")
 
 
 # (regex, restructuredText link replacement, object) list
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 4648763342..a7a3128d61 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -85,20 +85,9 @@ test = [
     "types-toposort"
 ]
 docs = [
-    "docutils<0.21",
-    "sphinx>=5.3,<7.3",
-    "sphinx_rtd_theme==2.0.0",
-    # Regression on sphinx-autodoc-typehints 1.21
-    # that creates some problematic docstrings
-    "sphinx-autodoc-typehints==1.20.2",
-    "sphinx_copybutton==0.5.2",
-    "sphinx-notfound-page",
+    "kedro-sphinx-theme==2024.4.0",
     "ipykernel>=5.3, <7.0",
-    "myst-parser>=1.0,<2.1",
     "Jinja2<3.2.0",
-    "sphinx-last-updated-by-git",
-    "sphinx-favicon",
-    "sphinxcontrib-youtube",
 ]
 jupyter = [
     "ipylab>=1.0.0",