Elections Gloucestershire County Council Local Interest Local News
14 May 2025 / 7 August 2025 by Chris White
The future of local government – and what it could mean for Tewkesbury Tewkesbury Borough Council (TBC) has published full details and plans around potential local government reorganisation, including information on the upcoming English Devolution White Paper and proposed timelines. EDIT 7/8/25 CW Your councils are changing. The government wants to give more power to […]
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Elections Local News
25 February 2025 by Chris White
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/calls-public-say-council-shake-9969822 More than 1,600 people have signed the petition set up by Tewkesbury Borough Council leader Richard Stanley which says splitting the county would “undermine our collective strength, identity, and future”.
Climate Action Elections Gloucestershire County Council
26 January 2025 / 26 January 2025 by Chris White
Tourism and Economic Growth Strategy – I have made strong representations to “green” thisrecently adopted Borough Strategy. Both the Leader of the Council and the Chief Executive havewelcomed my intervention to strengthen a Strategy that they admitted, despite its adoption, stillrequires considerable work in key areas such as the Green economy. Watch this space. Procurement […]
Elections Gloucestershire County Council
3 January 2025 / 3 January 2025 by Chris White
On 16th December, the government published its English Devolution White Paper. The main thrust is the government’s ambition for all of England to have Strategic Authorities, either as mayoral cities and regions or non-mayoral agreements for counties or combined authorities. This will mean starting a new conversation for Gloucestershire and surrounding counties. But the more […]
Elections Local News National News
19 December 2024 by Chris White