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Cotswold District Council will be working with local communities to do a full review of car parking across the district to create a plan to improve car parking in future.

Cotswold District Council will be working with local communities across the district to look at the future needs for playing pitches and how existing pitches can be improved to accommodate current needs following the publication of a review.

Cotswold District Council is asking residents, businesses and organisations across the district to give their views on the Council’s finances as it prepares to set the budget for the next financial year. 

Cotswold District Council is encouraging residents to eat up their Halloween pumpkins this year to reduce food waste and help the planet.

Four neighbouring local authorities Cotswold District Council, Forest of Dean District Council, West Oxfordshire District and Cheltenham Borough Council are set to take greater control of council services.

Cotswold District Council is running an online survey to understand issues and opportunities for parking, travel and access faced by residents, workers and visitors. The feedback will inform a Sustainable Access and Movement Strategy for Cirencester which will help inform and guide the Cirencester Masterplan.

Cotswold District Council has today published its financial challenge for the next three years, with tough decisions to be made for the Council to avoid bankruptcy as a result of reduced government funding and increased costs.

Cotswold District Council is taking a significant step forward in its journey towards achieving its net-zero by 2030 goal by installing photovoltaic solar panels at its Cirencester office. The initiative is part of a broader strategy to combat climate change and reduce the Council's own carbon footprint.

A Tetbury woman who fraudulently claimed a total of over £46,000 from Cotswold District Council and from the Department of Work and Pensions in benefits has been convicted in Gloucester Crown Court.

With national Recycle Week (16 – 22 October) getting underway next week, Cotswold District Council is supporting this year’s Recycle Now campaign by encouraging residents to hunt out those forgotten recyclable ‘treasures’ that are hiding in cupboards and lurking inside rubbish bins.

Cotswold District Council has successfully prosecuted an individual for flytipping along Quiet Lane in Siddington. The fly-tip contained black bin bags, cardboard, mattresses, a fireplace, wooden furniture, a fridge freezer and other electrical items.

A fire in the back of a bin lorry, which required a call out by the Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service, is leading Cotswold District Council to highlight the risk of binning lithium-ion batteries as more and more fires are starting in waste vehicles and at rubbish sorting facilities across the country.