July 1, 2025
The Parish Council has been receiving an increasing number of enquiries concerning the lack of grass cutting taking place on the verges around the village. These verges are the responsibility of Gloucestershire County Council (GCC), however, local residents are being told that they are the responsibility of the Parish Council. THIS IS NOT TRUE. The map on the GCC website has also been changed to show that the Parish Council are now responsible for cutting the verges but this is not the case. At no time has the Parish Council been contacted or asked to undertake this responsibility, and it is not something that can be taken on without time to prepare, both in terms of contractors and financing this additional work. Numerous attempts to meet and discuss this with GCC officers have proved fruitless, and even a meeting with the County Councillor has failed to move this matter along. The Council will continue to pursue this matter and further updates will be made when further information is available.In themeantime, if you wish to report any particular issues, please do so on the FixMy Street part of the County Council’s website, and contact your countycouncilors, Councillors Alex Hegenbarth and Richard Stanley. Their email addresses are alex.hegenbarth@gloucestershire.gov.uk and richard.stanley@gloucestershire.gov.uk
Fix My Street
March 21, 2025
Please be aware of the road works affecting the Parish this week can be found below. Live updates on road closures can be found on the Highways website; https://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/highways/roads/roadworks/
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February 24, 2025
An update on the progress of the cycleway can be found by clicking below
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January 9, 2025
On December 20th, the Parish Council was informed that Gloucestershire County Council (GCC) has decided to cease grass cutting arrangements with Tewkesbury Borough Council (TBC) and concentrate on increasing the biodiversity of their land, cutting grass less frequently and carrying out some limited wildflower sowing. According to the Borough Council, discussions with the County Council have been taking place throughout 2024 – however, at no point has Bishop’s Cleeve Parish Council been informed of, or included in, these discussions – we have merely been informed of the final outcome. As a result, the Parish Council has received this information without forewarning and with insufficient detail for the Council to be able to consider the implications to the parish. In order to be able to better understand the consequences, we have contacted Gloucestershire County Council and requested details of the areas which will no longer be cut. When we receive any further information we will share this.
January 8, 2025
The Parish Council is very disappointed that despite many discussions with Tewkesbury Borough, their planners have refused to reduce the amount of expensive and high maintenance landscaping, the subject of a recent planning application, that they require on the Homelands Community Building site. The Council has worked closely with the developers, Vistry, and the Borough Council over many years to deliver this building for the community ensuring that fundamental issues were addressed. However, the Borough Council’s continued refusal to reduce the amount of landscaping required, that alone would cost the community many thousands of pounds every year to maintain, as well as the other elements that have increased projected running costs, has resulted in the Parish Council concluding that they cannot, with the financial interests of Bishop’s Cleeve residents paramount, take on this additional facility.
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January 3, 2025
Construction work is set to get under way on the next phase of the A435 cycle route in the new year.
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