Month: July 2024
Council introduces new route map to decarbonise its vehicle fleet
Forest of Dean District Council vehicles, including waste and recycling lorries, will be predominantly electric or powered by alternative fuels six years from now after a new route map to decarbonisation was passed by the Council’s Cabinet in July. The...
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19th July 2024
Go-ahead for industrial units, workshops and warehouses bid
By Carmelo Garcia – Local Democracy Reporter Plans for a new industrial site with warehouses and offices which will create up to 80 new jobs near Cheltenham have been given the go-ahead. Chase Commercial Ltd has been granted permission to...
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19th July 2024
Club at Tuffley Park a step closer to reopening
By Carmelo Garcia – Local Democracy Reporter The Club at Tuffley Park is a step closer to reopening its doors as civic chiefs have approved plans to lease it to One Church. Gloucester City Council’s cabinet approved granting a new...
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19th July 2024
Serious concerns grow over ‘out of place’ block of flats plan in town centre
By Carmelo Garcia – Local Democracy Reporter Opposition to controversial plans to demolish Cheltenham town centre offices and replace them with a block of flats is growing. Cheltenham Civic Society (CCS) is among those who have objected to the proposals...
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19th July 2024
Stuck lorry sparks renewed calls to repair ‘badly signposted’ and ‘dangerous’ lane
By Carmelo Garcia – Local Democracy Reporter There are renewed calls for landowners, developers and Gloucestershire highways to work together to resurface a narrow country lane which is in a “disgraceful” condition after a lorry got stuck going down it....
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19th July 2024
Club at Tuffley Park: Cost to city taxpayers made public
By Carmelo Garcia – Local Democracy Reporter The final “shocking” cost to the taxpayer for the Club at Tuffley Park fiasco last year has finally been revealed. The debacle will have cost Gloucester taxpayers up to £170,000 in unpaid rent,...
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19th July 2024
‘Trapped’ Cotswold man can’t sell £1m home due to ‘collapsing council car park’
By Carmelo Garcia – Local Democracy Reporter A Cotswold villager feels trapped and says he cannot sell his £1m farmhouse because of a council car park which is subsiding onto his property. Andrew Ewart-James, 78, who bought Home Farm in...
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19th July 2024
Fears Gloucester city centre has gone from ‘dying to dead’
By Carmelo Garcia – Local Democracy Reporter There are serious concerns about the state of Gloucester city centre having “gone from dying to dead” with many closed shops across the gate streets. Residents have witnessed the demise of the city’s...
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19th July 2024
Couple subjected to abuse at motorway services
Police are appealing for help in identifying a man and a woman who abused a couple in a suspected hate crime at a motorway service station. Officers received a report that a couple had stopped at Gloucester Services, between junctions...
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19th July 2024
Gloucester Tall Ships Festival ticket prices to be reviewed as city families ‘were priced out’
By Carmelo Garcia – Local Democracy Reporter The ticket prices for Gloucester’s Tall Ships Festival will be reviewed after complaints this year’s event was too expensive and families were priced out. More than 17,000 people attended the festival this year....
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19th July 2024