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Cotswold residents living in the district’s most energy inefficient properties are being urged to seek advice about whether they could be entitled to energy saving upgrades to their homes to make them more affordable and to act before the colder weather sets in.

Cotswold District Council has reached its target of £500,000 investment into its innovative programme, Cotswold Climate Investment (CCI). The CCI is Gloucestershire’s first Community Municipal investment (CMI) which allowed local people to invest directly into a greener, more sustainable and healthier future for the Cotswolds. 

Cotswold District Council is once again asking residents of Bourton-on-the-Water for their views on how to spend the money raised through a new tourism charge at Rissington Road car park following the success of the previous year

Cotswold District Council, having owned The Cotswold Club on Watermoor Road in Cirencester since 1978, has sold the property to Watermoor Point, to invest the income into more carbon zero affordable housing for its residents.

Cotswold District residents are being urged to check their electoral registration details or risk losing their chance to vote on decisions that affect them as the Council starts its Annual Canvass to check everyone's voting details are up to date.

The Council has been advised by Bourton Vale Parking Limited that the privately owned coach car park in Bourton-on-the-Water is due to close to coaches from December 2022 .

The Corinium Museum has been awarded Best Small Business, Best Team and Runner-Up for Environmental Project of the Year in the Cirencester Chamber of Commerce Community and Business Awards.

Cotswold District Council, alongside Gloucestershire Health & Care Foundation Trust, Bromford Housing, Young Gloucestershire and Green Square Accord, have come together in support for Safer Gloucestershire’s new anti-social behaviour pledge. 

Cotswold District Council has been successful in prosecuting an individual for fly tipping along a bridleway near the B4450 road that leads from Stow-on-the-Wold to Bledington. The tip contained black bin bags, soft furnishings, a sofa, cardboard packaging from children’s toys, items of clothing and a green waste bin. 

Cotswold District Council’s ‘Crowdfund Cotswold’ project has won the Community Involvement award at this year's Local Government Chronicle Awards. The project won the national award this week (Wednesday 20 July), recognising it as one of the best community projects in the country.

Cotswold District Council are asking residents, visitors and employees using the Cotswold Water Park for their views on travel around the area to inform a new ‘travel plan’ to improve how people navigate around the area.

The Cotswold District is becoming an increasingly attractive location for business according to a recent report, with key sectors of the economy showing strong growth and town centres in the area bouncing back from the pandemic.The upbeat assessment was included in the most recent Green Economic Growth Strategy update at Cotswold District Council’s Cabinet meeting on Monday (4th July).