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Cotswold is a local government district in Gloucestershire, England. It is named after the wider Cotswolds region and range of hills. The council is based in the district's largest town of Cirencester .
2003 Cotswold District Council election (New ward boundaries reduced the number of seats by 1) [10] [11] 2007 Cotswold District Council election (Some new ward boundaries) [ 12 ] 2011 Cotswold District Council election
In August 2020, it was reported that Cheltenham Borough Council, Cotswold District Council and Stroud District Council were exploring ways to create unitary authorities for their county. The plans would affect Gloucestershire County Council and all six of its districts (not including South Gloucestershire , which is already a unitary authority).
In other words, Cotswold District Council would no longer have the authority to grant and refuse housing applications. [60] Indicative of the Cotswolds' uniqueness and value is that five European Special Areas of Conservation, three national nature reserves and more than 80 Sites of Special Scientific Interest are within the Cotswolds AONB. [61]
The green belt lies next to the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Due to it lying across the Gloucester-Cheltenham metropolitan area, responsibility and co-ordination lies with local unitary and district councils as these are the local planning authorities.
North Cotswolds is a newly created constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [2] [3] Created as a result of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it was first contested at the 2024 general election, [4] when it was won by Conservative Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, who had represented Cirencester and Tewkesbury then The Cotswolds since 1992.
The 2019 Cotswold District Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect all members of Cotswold District Council, as part of the United Kingdom local elections. The Conservatives had controlled the council since 2003 but lost ten seats. The Liberal Democrats won overall control of the council for the first time since the council's ...
Elections for Cotswold District Council were held on Thursday 5 May 2011. The whole council was up for election. Cotswold District is divided into 28 wards , with a total of 44 seats up for election.