News - March 2021

The main road linking Monmouth and Chepstow has reopen today (31 March) as work to stabilise the slope is now complete.

The new £9.75 million carbon-neutral special school for 11 to 16 year olds has been granted planning permission.

Gloucestershire County Council wants to include a range of innovative projects as part of the county’s submission to the recently announced UK Community Renewal Fund. 

Children in Gloucestershire who are entitled to receive Free School Meals will be supported with vouchers for the Easter holidays.

The county council has distributed more than £500,000 additional funding to support Gloucestershire care homes in the controlling the spread of Coronavirus.

Working together with partners, a council project that aims to help vulnerable or disadvantaged groups has delivered life-changing support for over 1,600 people in Gloucestershire.

Schools across Gloucestershire are being encouraged to sign up to take part in the Big Pedal 2021.

The A46 by Coopers Hill is set to fully reopen this week as work to stabilise the road surface nears completion.

Gloucestershire County Council and Gloucestershire’s NHS are pleased to announce a wide range of community based projects and activities which will be funded by the GloW (Gloucestershire Wellbeing) Community Grant programmer over a three year period to help improve mental wellbeing in the county.

The link in Tewkesbury will be the location of the county’s fourth COVID-19 community testing site, which opens this Wednesday 24 March. Testing at this site is for people with no symptoms, but who still have to leave the house for essential reasons.

The county council is celebrating welcoming 45 new families to their community of foster carers, but many more carers are still needed for local children.

A letter detailing the outcome of a reinspection of Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service (GFRS) by government inspectors has been published today (19 March).

Gloucestershire County Council has released the initial findings from last year’s M5 Junction 10 options consultation which reveals strong support for the much needed improvements.

An audit report has recognised the hard work of Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service (GFRS) as it continues to make positive progress in its improvement journey.

Gloucestershire County Council has been awarded £1.5m of new grant funding for a programme of holiday activities and food for schoolchildren eligible for Free School Meals.

Gloucestershire County Council has successfully bid for £1,352,000 towards improved rural transport in two pilot areas. The Forest of Dean and the North Cotswolds will benefit from bespoke minibus services as part of a pilot to bring affordable public transport to some of the most rural areas of the county.

At its meeting next week Gloucestershire County Council’s cabinet will be asked to approve a further £5million investment to progress its government  funding bid for the M5 Junction 9 and A46 (Ashchurch) Transport Scheme, which includes environmental improvements for pedestrians and cyclists.

Gloucestershire County Council’s cabinet will be asked to agree support for a partnership bid for site nominations, that if successful will aim to build the world’s first prototype fusion power reactor by 2040.

Gloucestershire County Council’s cabinet is being asked next week to approve the further development of the council’s Infrastructure Recovery Strategy (IRS).

Gloucestershire County Council is set to invest an extra £1.8 million in the county in the next financial year.

On Wednesday 24 March, cabinet is set to agree £6.7m additional funding for schools across the county, building on the ongoing £100m countywide programme.

Gloucestershire County Council is expanding the free parking available to support NHS workers providing vital services to communities, to include staff delivering the Covid-19 vaccine to vulnerable people at home.

Gloucestershire County Council has been working with Cheltenham Borough Council on biodiversity and landscaping plans within the £1.6million walking and cycling improvements in west Cheltenham.

A judicial review of the planning application for The High School, Leckhampton has been withdrawn by the claimant.

Gloucestershire County Council’s Household Recycling Centres (HRCs) will be switching to longer summer opening hours a week earlier than planned.

Households across Gloucestershire will soon be asked to take part in the nationwide survey of housing and the population. The answers you provide shape how public services such as schools, transport routes and doctors surgeries in the county are planned and funded, as well as making sure that funding is provided to those that need it most.

Young care leavers in Gloucestershire are settling into their new home at Trevone House, which has been transformed into the first facility of its kind in the UK.

Testing for people without symptoms is being extended across the county with the arrival of the third community testing site set to open in Cinderford tomorrow (Wednesday 10 March).

Gloucestershire County Council is rounding off its support for International Women’s Day today by announcing the appointment of Jean Cole to the role of Assistant Chief Fire Officer of Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service (GFRS).

Wayne Bowcock has today been announced as the new Chief Executive and Chief Fire Officer of Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service.

As all pupils prepare to return to the classroom from next week (Monday 8 March), the county council is reassuring parents, carers and young people that Gloucestershire schools continue to be committed to ensuring everyone has a safe environment to learn in.

A footbridge in Tewkesbury that has been closed since last year will be fully refurbished this summer.

Gloucestershire County Council is supporting Food Waste Action Week this week (1-7 March), which aims to reduce food waste in the home to help tackle the climate emergency.