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Cotswold: what’s happening where you live

What the council itself has published on the five things it most shapes for a household: homes, getting about, the bill, the local environment and schools. Each line is quoted from the council’s own document, with the link. This page says what was decided or proposed; it never says whether it was right.

Read on 24 September 2026. Councils publish at different rates and in different places, so “nothing found” means nothing found, not nothing happening.

Cotswold District Council: Non-metropolitan district (lower tier), England, South West; within the county of GLS. GOV.UK lists it as a district council, within Gloucestershire County Council. ONS code E07000079.

Council plan · Budget · Meeting papers · Councillors · Register of interests · Consultations

Do it online

The council’s own service pages as listed by GOV.UK’s Local Links Manager (Open Government Licence), refreshed weekly; the same list of everyday services, in the same order, for every council, in GOV.UK’s wording.

Housing

Cotswold's emerging Local Plan uses a local housing need figure of 1,054 dwellings a year, a requirement of 17,918 homes over 2026-2043.

“The housing requirement over the Plan period is 17,918 net dwellings (i.e. 17 years x 1,054 homes per year).”

Cotswold District Council, 1 July 2026. Read 24 September 2026. 'Cotswold District Housing Land Supply Topic Paper – 1 April 2026 base' (July 2026; day not shown). Same paper: 'A local housing need (LHN) figure of 1,054 dwellings per annum is used for the emerging Local Plan'. Verified with pdftotext. Cabinet 10 July 2025 agreed to merge Local Plan projects into a Full Local Plan Update, submission 2026, adoption 2027 (https://meetings.cotswold.gov.uk/mgAi.aspx?ID=5820).

Local plans on the national planning register Updated automatically

MHCLG planning data platform (planning.data.gov.uk), as supplied by the council; Open Government Licence. Stages are as recorded there, and some entries are old: each shows when the council last updated it.

Transport

Cotswold District Council adopted a Car Parking Strategy 2025-2028 in autumn 2025.

“Cotswold District Council Car Parking Strategy 2025-2028 was adopted in Autumn 2025.”

Cotswold District Council, undated. Read 24 September 2026. District council; highways are Gloucestershire County Council's responsibility. Parking is the council's transport remit.

Council tax

Band D set by Cotswold for 2026–27: £163.93 of a £2,391.65 total bill in the area. MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027 (Open Government Licence).

Cotswold District Council's Band D council tax for 2026/27 is £163.93, an increase of 3.15%.

“The District Council Tax is therefore £163.93 at Band D (an increase of 3.15 % on the 2025/26 figure).”

Cotswold District Council, 23 February 2026. Read 24 September 2026. Council report 'Council Tax 2026/27', Council meeting 23 February 2026. Verified with pdftotext. The council's budget page says: 'our portion of council tax will rise by less than 10p a week - £5 a year for a Band D home.'

Environment

Cotswold's council plan commits to a clear plan for the council's operations to reach net zero by 2030.

“A measurable reduction in the Council’s Carbon footprint and a clear plan for our operations to reach NetZero by 2030”

Cotswold District Council, undated. Read 24 September 2026. Bullet point in 'Our Cotswolds Our Plan 2024-2028'. Verified with pdftotext.

Education

Cotswold is a district council and does not run schools; no school proposal is on its website. Where we looked

Changes to schools in this area recorded by the Department for Education Updated automatically

No school here is currently recorded as proposed to open or close.

In the last twelve months: 0 opened, 2 closed (2 closure)

Get Information about Schools, DfE’s register of every school in England, refreshed daily (Open Government Licence). The register’s own reason is shown: most closures and openings are a school becoming an academy, which changes who runs it, not whether it is there.

What Cotswold is deciding

Every item on the agendas of Full Council and the Cabinet, as the council titled it, from about six months back to three months ahead. Left out: section headings, procedural items (apologies, minutes, declarations of interest, announcements, questions, appointments), anything about councillors’ attendance or allowances (which this site does not show), and private items the council itself withholds. Motions are shown with whoever the council’s agenda says proposed them; a councillor’s party is from Open Council Data.

Coming up

Recently

7 earlier meetings

  • Wed, 12 August 2026 · Full Council · Extraordinary meeting.

    • Local PlanResult not yet read from the minutes.

  • Thu, 6 August 2026 · Cabinet · Extraordinary

    • Local PlanResult not yet read from the minutes.

  • Wed, 15 July 2026 · Full Council

    • Making the Cotswold District Dementia FriendlyResult not yet read from the minutes.
    • Motion Motion report - Food and Farming — proposer named in the council's papersResult not yet read from the minutes.
    • Overview and Scrutiny Committee Annual Report 2025/26Result not yet read from the minutes.
    • Unsung Heroes AwardsResult not yet read from the minutes.
    • Committee membership changeResult not yet read from the minutes.

  • Wed, 1 July 2026 · Cabinet

    • Financial Performance Report - Q4 2025/26Result not yet read from the minutes.
    • Service Performance Report - Q4 2025/26Result not yet read from the minutes.
    • Strategic Risk Register - Q4 2025/26Result not yet read from the minutes.
    • Schedule of Decisions taken by the Leader of the Council and/or Individual Cabinet MembersResult not yet read from the minutes.
    • Issue(s) Arising from Overview and Scrutiny and/or Audit and GovernanceResult not yet read from the minutes.
    • Planning Enforcement UpdateResult not yet read from the minutes.

  • Thu, 4 June 2026 · Cabinet

    • Schedule of Decisions taken by the Leader of the Council and/or Individual Cabinet MembersResult not yet read from the minutes.
    • Issue(s) Arising from Overview and Scrutiny and/or Audit and GovernanceResult not yet read from the minutes.
    • Asset Management - Abberley House/ Corinium Museum Roof Repair ProjectResult not yet read from the minutes.
    • Waste and Environment - Service Design OptionsResult not yet read from the minutes.
    • Asset Management - Out-of-District Investment PropertiesResult not yet read from the minutes.
    • Local Government Reorganisation - Gloucestershire Structural Changes OrderResult not yet read from the minutes.

  • Wed, 20 May 2026 · Full Council · Annual Council

    • Appointment to Committees 2026-27Result not yet read from the minutes.
    • Appointments to Outside Bodies 2026-27Result not yet read from the minutes.
    • Announcement of the Leader on Cabinet AppointmentsResult not yet read from the minutes.

  • Thu, 16 April 2026 · Cabinet

    • Schedule of Decisions taken by the Leader of the Council and/or Individual Cabinet MembersResult not yet read from the minutes.
    • Issue(s) Arising from Overview and Scrutiny and/or Audit and GovernanceResult not yet read from the minutes.
    • Financial Performance Report 2025-26 Quarter 3Result not yet read from the minutes.
    • Service Performance Report 2025-26 Quarter 3Result not yet read from the minutes.
    • Review of Publica Governance Agreement and Extension of Service AgreementResult not yet read from the minutes.
    • Advertising, Sponsorship & Endorsement PolicyResult not yet read from the minutes.
    • Publica Business Plan 2026-28Result not yet read from the minutes.
    • Retention Strategy 2026-28Result not yet read from the minutes.
    • Discretionary Rate Relief PolicyResult not yet read from the minutes.
    • Artificial Intelligence Adoption StrategyResult not yet read from the minutes.
    • UBICO Business Plan 2026-27Result not yet read from the minutes.
    • Creation of a Commercial Development PostResult not yet read from the minutes.
    • Strategic Risk Register Q3 2025-26Result not yet read from the minutes.

From the council’s own meeting papers (Modern.gov), read 25 September 2026. Refreshed weekly. Once a meeting’s minutes are published, each item shows the result in the minutes’ own words (carried, lost, withdrawn, deferred, noted or agreed), the recorded vote where the minutes give one, and a link to the minutes; where those words are not found, the page says so rather than guessing.

What the council plans to spend, 2026–27

The budget for each service, as Cotswold reported it to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in England.

Cotswold: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
ServiceBudget
Education servicesnone budgeted
Highways and transport services−£2.3 million
Children's social carenone budgeted
Adult social carenone budgeted
Public healthnone budgeted
Housing services (general fund only)£2.2 million
Cultural and related services£918,000
Environmental and regulatory services£11.2 million
Planning and development services£3.6 million
Police servicesnone budgeted
Fire and rescue servicesnone budgeted
Central services£3.1 million
Other servicesnone budgeted
Total service expenditure£18.7 million

Net current expenditure: net of sales, fees and charges; spending funded by the NHS, such as through the Better Care Fund, is excluded.A minus figure means the service’s income is budgeted to be more than its spending. “None budgeted” usually means another body runs that service here. Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Revenue Account Budget 2026 to 2027, individual local authority data (part 1), updated 11 June 2026 (Open Government Licence).

Life in Cotswold: the official facts

Facts about the people who live here: their pay, homes, health and more, from official statistics. They describe the place, not you, and every council gets the same list. Each shows when it was measured.

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People living here
91,563 people 30 June 2025 · Office for National StatisticsAn official estimate of everyone who lives in the area, in the middle of the year.
Typical age
50 years 30 June 2025 · Office for National StatisticsHalf the people who live here are younger than this and half are older.
Money to live on, per person, per year
£38,447 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage household income per person after taxes, with benefits added: what people have to spend or save.
Typical weekly pay, before tax
£654 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsFor employees who live here: half earn more than this each week, half earn less.
Children growing up in poverty
17.5% April 2024 to March 2025 · Department for Work and PensionsThe share of children under 16 in families on low incomes once housing costs are paid.
People claiming unemployment-related benefits
2.0% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsThe share of people aged 16 to 64 claiming Jobseeker's Allowance or Universal Credit while looking for work.
Average price of a home
£426,296 August 2026 · HM Land RegistryThe average price of a home here in the month shown.
How many years of pay a home costs
11.0 times yearly pay 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsA typical home's price divided by the typical yearly pay of people who live here.
Greenhouse gases, per person
6.9 tonnes per person 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroEmissions from the area in a year, shared out per resident, in tonnes of carbon dioxide or its equivalent.
Homes and businesses that can get the fastest broadband
72.2% 1 January 2026 · OfcomThe share of addresses that can get gigabit broadband (1,000 Mbps).
Public chargers for electric cars
309.8 per 100,000 people 1 July 2026 · Department for Transport, sourced from ZapmapPublic charging points at all speeds, for every 100,000 people.
Businesses trading here
5,760 businesses 2024 · Office for National StatisticsBusinesses with sales or staff in the year.

More figures for Cotswold from the ONS

Gathered by the Office for National Statistics in Explore Local Statistics (Open Government Licence), refreshed daily. Some figures aren’t published for every nation, so the list can be shorter outside England.

Who runs the council

34 seats in 2026. Run by: Liberal Democrats, with a majority. Open Council Data (public domain).

Councillors by party: Liberal Democrats 22, Conservative and Unionist 10, Green Party (E&W) 1, Independent / Other 1.

Next scheduled council election: 6 May 2027.

All 34 councillors, by ward
  • Mark Harris (Liberal Democrats) — Abbey
  • Clare Turner (Green Party (E&W)) — Blockley
  • Len Wilkins (Conservative and Unionist) — Bourton Vale
  • Jon Wareing (Liberal Democrats) — Bourton Village
  • Gina Blomefield (Conservative and Unionist) — Campden & Vale
  • Tom Stowe (Conservative and Unionist) — Campden & Vale
  • Paul Hodgkinson (Liberal Democrats) — Chedworth & Churn Valley
  • Andrea Pellegram (Liberal Democrats) — Chesterton
  • David Fowles (Conservative and Unionist) — Coln Valley
  • Julia Judd (Conservative and Unionist) — Ermin
  • Michael Vann (Liberal Democrats) — Fairford North
  • David Cunningham (Conservative and Unionist) — Fosseridge
  • Ray Brassington (Liberal Democrats) — Four Acres
  • Tony Slater (Conservative and Unionist) — Grumbolds Ash with Avening
  • Mike McKeown (Liberal Democrats) — Kemble
  • Helene Mansilla (Liberal Democrats) — Lechlade, Kempsford & Fairford South
  • Tristan Wilkinson (Liberal Democrats) — Lechlade, Kempsford & Fairford South
  • Angus Jenkinson (Liberal Democrats) — Moreton East
  • Daryl Corps (Conservative and Unionist) — Moreton West
  • Claire Bloomer (Liberal Democrats) — New Mills
  • Tony Dale (Liberal Democrats) — Northleach
  • Jeremy Theyer (Conservative and Unionist) — Sandywell
  • Mike Evemy (Liberal Democrats) — Siddington & Cerney Rural
  • Juliet Layton (Liberal Democrats) — South Cerney Village
  • Joe Harris (Liberal Democrats) — St Michael's
  • Dilys Neill (Liberal Democrats) — Stow
  • Patrick Coleman (Liberal Democrats) — Stratton
  • Nikki Ind (Independent / Other) — Tetbury East & Rural
  • Ian Watson (Liberal Democrats) — Tetbury Town
  • Laura Hall-Wilson (Conservative and Unionist) — Tetbury with Upton
  • Lisa Spivey (Liberal Democrats) — The Ampneys & Hampton
  • Paul Evans (Liberal Democrats) — The Beeches
  • Craig Thurling (Liberal Democrats) — The Rissingtons
  • Nick Bridges (Liberal Democrats) — Watermoor

Each councillor’s register of interests is on the council’s own site, linked rather than summarised, because summarising means choosing. Councillors from Open Council Data as recorded after the May 2026 elections; a by-election since then may have changed one seat. Attendance and allowances are not shown.

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Cite this page

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