Category: Politics

Gloucester has secured £1,489,300 funding from the Arts Council England and Heritage Lottery Fund’s Great Place Scheme to help put art and culture at the heart of the city.  This grant will support an ambitious project led by Gloucester City Council. It’s purpose is to make the city a great place to live, work, play […]

Members of the public are invited to have their say on changes to the draft Joint Core Strategy. The Gloucester, Cheltenham and Tewkesbury Joint Core Strategy (JCS) is now at the stage of main modifications, and is out for public consultation until the end of the day on Monday, 10 April 2017. The new version […]

On January 16th 2017 Gloucester City Council is launching a public conversation on its ‘city plan’. The city council is asking members of the public to have their say on what areas in the city have potential for development, what the developments should be for and what criteria they would need to meet. The draft […]

Today Gloucester City Council can announce that Kings Walk shopping centre has been purchased by Vixcroft, who plan to invest £5 million into improving the centre. Plans to regenerate Gloucester’s city centre have been well underway this year with the new bus station on-site and plans unveiled for improvements to the railway station and the […]

Thank you to everyone that came out and supported both Laura Pearsall and Gordon Taylor for Abbeymead on Thursday… we  look forward to representing Abbeymead on Gloucester City Council for the next four years with Paul James and the Gloucester Conservatives team. we will do our best to keep Gloucester on the up.

Conservative controlled Gloucester City Council has improved its recycling figures from 6% to over 40% since taking over control and they are keen to improve this even further.  To aid this they are working with their contractor, Amey, to introduce a new fleet of refuse collection vehicles from the start of 2017, which will include […]

Download the conservative manifesto 2016 Here Monday, 18 April, 2016 Conservatives in Gloucester have launched their manifesto for next month’s all-out City Council elections. The Party, which has run the Council since 2004, makes a number of key pledges in the 18 page document. Their priorities include: • Low council tax. • More working with other […]

This week the first of the hoardings were erected at the current bus station and more will follow throughout the coming weeks. Once all the hoardings are in place the first spade will hit the ground and shape to the new hub can start to form. The current bus station café will be brought down, […]

Gloucester Tourist Information Centre has won gold in the visitor information provider category at the South West Tourism Awards. Gloucester was joint winner with Bodmin Tourist Information Centre for the award, which was held at Exeter Cathedral on 4th February. The award ceremony was organised by Services for Tourism, an organisation that works with tourism […]

Gloucester Folk Museum will be commemorating the 461st anniversary of Bishop John Hooper being burnt at the stake, and are inviting people to go and learn more about the martyred bishop. Bishop John Hooper, an advocate of the English Reformation, was Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester under the reign of Edward VI, England’s first protestant […]