• Gloucestershire County Council Elections 2013: Cotswold results

  By Inatizzy at 10:35 on 03/05/13

  

  Here are the full results for the Cotswolds following yesterday's Gloucestershire County Council elections: BOURTON ON THE WATER AND NORTHLEACH COOKE Christopher (UKIP) 591 HILL Merilyn (LAB) 170 HODGKINSON Paul (LD) 1275 THORPE David (C) 1216 Elected: Paul Hodgkinson (LD) CAMPDEN VALE FITZGERALD Michael (UKIP) 481 FORD Glyn (LAB) 230 SIPTHORP Peter (LD) 419 STOWE Lynden (C) 1818 Elected: Lynden Stowe (C) CIRENCESTER...

• Gloucestershire County Council elections live coverage

  By Inatizzy at 18:13 on 02/05/13

  

  by Jack Maidment Gloucestershire joins the rest of England today as it goes to the polls to elect a new county council. The Citizen and Gloucestershire Echo have a team of reporters and photographers covering the election as it happens through the night, who will be providing live tweets from the counts which can be viewed at Cover it Live - link below. Tweets from all the councils in Gloucestershire will also be...

• Cotswolds local plan to be fast-tracked

  By Inatizzy at 03:29 on 11/04/13

  

  by The Gloucestershire Echo A vital blueprint for future development in the Cotswolds is being fast-tracked. Cotswold District Council has pledged to 'speed up' the adoption of new planning policies by two years. It aims to compress several stages required by law into a single comprehensive local plan. The main components will be produced and examined once rather than at two or three separate public examinations.  Community concern...

• BREAKING NEWS: Incinerator thrown out by council planners

  By Inatizzy at 23:53 on 21/03/13

  

  Plans for a giant waste incinerator on the edge of Gloucester have been unanimously thrown out by councillors tonight. In a shock move by county council planners, the controversial proposal to build a £500 million waste disposal plant near Junction 12 of the M5 in Haresfield did not receive the seal of approval so desperately hoped for by the Tory-led administration at Shire Hall, who last year signed a multi-million pound...

• £250k investment announced for Cotswolds district flood defence work

  By Inatizzy at 20:07 on 07/02/13

  

  Gloucestershire County Council has confirmed how it will be spending more than £1m of efficiency savings in flood defence works across the county. The council had a pot of £1.086m available for flood alleviation, and asked the six district councils to bid for funding for works in their areas.  All six came back with a list of projects, and the county council was able to give them nearly all the funding requested. The...

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