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Gloucestershire: 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.

This page is built from official registers only; the council’s own publications have not been read yet, and every line below says so where that leaves a gap.

Gloucestershire County Council: County (upper tier), England, South West. GOV.UK lists it as a county council. ONS code E10000013.

Council website

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

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Transport

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Council tax

Band D set by Gloucestershire for 2026–27: £1,763.46. MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027 (Open Government Licence).

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Environment

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Education

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Changes to schools 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: 1 opened (1 academy converter), 5 closed (3 closure, 1 result of amalgamation/merger, 1 academy converter)

Coalway Community Infant School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: result of amalgamation/merger, 31 March 2026
Hillview Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 August 2026
Rendcomb College — closed; reason recorded: closure, 3 July 2026
Withington Church of England Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: closure, 31 August 2026
Wyelands Creek Outdoor Learning Centre — closed; reason recorded: closure, 2 February 2026
Lift Hillview (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 September 2026

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 the council plans to spend, 2026–27

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

Gloucestershire: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
Service	Budget
Education services	£546.4 million
Highways and transport services	£63.1 million
Children's social care	£197.6 million
Adult social care	£271.7 million
Public health	£33.2 million
Housing services (general fund only)	£4.0 million
Cultural and related services	£8.0 million
Environmental and regulatory services	£45.3 million
Planning and development services	£3.4 million
Police services	£68,000
Fire and rescue services	£34.1 million
Central services	£12.3 million
Other services	none budgeted
Total service expenditure	£1,219.1 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).

Gloucestershire in numbers

Official statistics for the whole council area. Each figure is the latest published, with the period it covers.

Total population: 669,380 people 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMid-year estimate of the total number of people
Median age: 43 years 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMedian age of people
Gross disposable household income per head: £27,365 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage income per person (£) after taxes and direct benefits
Gross median weekly pay: £637 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsGross median weekly pay based on where people live (£)
Children in relative poverty after housing costs: 21.3% April 2024 to March 2025 · Department for Work and PensionsPercentage of children aged under 16 living in relative low income families After Housing Costs (AHC)
Claimant Count: 2.6% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsPercentage of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming unemployment-related benefits
Average house price: £316,822 July 2026 · HM Land RegistryAverage monthly price of a property (£)
Housing affordability ratio (residence-based): 8.1 affordability ratio 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsRatio of median house price to median gross annual residence-based earnings
Female healthy life expectancy: 63.4 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage years expected to be lived in good health for females born in the given year
Male healthy life expectancy: 63.4 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage years expected to be lived in good health for males born in the given year
Greenhouse gas emissions: 5.0 tCO2e per capita 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) per capita
Gigabit capable broadband: 85.4% 1 January 2026 · OfcomPercentage of premises that have coverage from a gigabit-capable service (download speeds of 1,000 Mbps or more)
Public electric vehicle chargers: 210.0 per 100,000 population 1 July 2026 · Department for Transport, sourced from ZapmapPublicly available electric vehicle chargers at all speeds per 100,000 people
Active businesses: 28,980 number of enterprises 2024 · Office for National StatisticsBusinesses with turnover or employment in current year

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

55 seats in 2026. Run by: Liberal Democrats, as a minority administration. Open Council Data (public domain).

Councillors by party: Liberal Democrats 27, Reform UK 10, Green Party (E&W) 9, Conservative and Unionist 6, Independent / Other 2, Labour Party 1.

Next scheduled council election: 3 May 2029.

All 55 councillors, by ward

Andrew Gravells (Conservative and Unionist) — Abbey
Colin Hay (Liberal Democrats) — All Saints & Oakley
Ashley Bowkett (Liberal Democrats) — Barnwood & Hucclecote
Sajid Patel (Conservative and Unionist) — Barton & Tredworth
Angela Boyes (Liberal Democrats) — Battledown & Charlton Kings
Roger Whyborn (Liberal Democrats) — Benhall & Up Hatherley
Alex Hegenbarth (Liberal Democrats) — Bishop's Cleeve
Gary Luff (Green Party (E&W)) — Bisley & Painswick
Beki Hoyland (Green Party (E&W)) — Blakeney & Bream
Paul Hodgkinson (Liberal Democrats) — Bourton-on-the-Water & Northleach
Ben Evans (Liberal Democrats) — Brockworth
Michael Rees (Reform UK) — Cam Valley
Tom Bradley (Conservative and Unionist) — Campden-Vale
Iain Dobie (Liberal Democrats) — Charlton Park & College
Stewart Dove (Liberal Democrats) — Churchdown
Ray Donaghue (Reform UK) — Cinderford
Mark Harris (Liberal Democrats) — Cirencester North with Ermin
Joe Harris (Liberal Democrats) — Cirencester Park
Leigh Challis (Reform UK) — Coleford
Alastair Chambers (Independent / Other) — Coney Hill & Matson
Piers Camp (Reform UK) — Drybrook & Lydbrook
Richard Dean (Green Party (E&W)) — Dursley
Dom Morris (Conservative and Unionist) — Fairford & Lechland on Thames
Jason Preece (Reform UK) — Grange & Kingsway
Stephen Davies (Conservative and Unionist) — Hardwicke & Severn
John Patient (Green Party (E&W)) — Haresfield & Upton St Leonards
Rebecca Trimnell (Liberal Democrats) — Hempsted & Westgate
Suzanne Williams (Liberal Democrats) — Hesters Way & Springbank
Sarah Hands (Liberal Democrats) — Highnam
Jeremy Hilton (Liberal Democrats) — Kingsholm & Wotton
Glenn Andrews (Liberal Democrats) — Lansdown & Park
Martin Horwood (Liberal Democrats) — Leckhampton & Warden Hill
Sarah Sawyer (Liberal Democrats) — Longlevens
Mark Howard (Reform UK) — Lydney
Chloe Turner (Green Party (E&W)) — Minchinhampton
Stuart Graham (Independent / Other) — Mitcheldean
Daryl Corps (Conservative and Unionist) — Moreton, Stow & the Rissingtons
Steve Robinson (Labour Party) — Nailsworth
Gill Moseley (Liberal Democrats) — Newent
Julian Tooke (Liberal Democrats) — Pittville & St Paul's
Ian Cameron (Green Party (E&W)) — Prestbury & Swindon Village
Chris Mayo (Reform UK) — Quedgeley
Craig Horrocks (Green Party (E&W)) — Rodborough
Chris McFarling (Green Party (E&W)) — Sedbury
Richard Stanley (Liberal Democrats) — Severn Vale
Lisa Spivey (Liberal Democrats) — South Cerney
Victoria Atherstone (Liberal Democrats) — St Mark's & St Peter's
Dean Botterill (Reform UK) — Stonehouse
Natalie Rothwell-Warn (Green Party (E&W)) — Stroud Central
Ian Watson (Liberal Democrats) — Tetbury
Kate Usmar (Liberal Democrats) — Tewkesbury East
Vernon Smith (Reform UK) — Tewkesbury West
Vernon Gray (Reform UK) — Tuffley & Moreland
Cheryl Agg (Liberal Democrats) — Winchcombe & Woodmancote
Linda Cohen (Liberal Democrats) — Wotton-under-Edge

Each councillor’s register of interests is on the council’s own website; we have not yet located the page. 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.

This council’s meeting papers are not yet read automatically, so decisions and motions are not listed here; they are on the council’s website.

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