Evidence and Documents

Council Plans

• Cheltenham Corporate Plan 2025-2028
• Gloucester Council Plan 2025-2028
• Tewkesbury Council Plan 2024-2030

Vision and Objectives

• Vision and Objectives Topic Paper (November 2025) (PDF, 521 KB)
• Vision and Objectives Topic Paper Appendix 1: Initial Vision and Objectives (November 2025) (PDF, 201 KB)
• Vision and Objectives Topic Paper Appendix 2: Summary of Regulation 18 Responses (November 2025) (PDF, 218 KB)

Climate Change

• Cheltenham Climate Emergency Action Plan Pathway to Net Zero

Monitoring

• Gloucester City Council – Monitoring
• Cheltenham Borough Council – Monitoring
• Tewkesbury Borough Council – Monitoring

Sites

• Spatial Options Topic Paper (November 2025) (PDF, 1.5 MB)

Housing and Economic Land Availability Assessment

The Strategic and Local Plan authorities carry out assessments of the suitability of land for a variety of uses including housing, employment and other non-residential uses, and Gypsies and Travellers. These help us to understand the amount and type of development we can deliver through our local plans.

Please note: The inclusion of land within HELAA assessments has no planning weight and does not in itself determine whether a site should be granted planning permission or allocated in a development plan for development. Assessments made through a HELAA are indicative only and do not prejudice assessments made through the development plan or planning application processes or preclude them from being developed for other purposes. Decisions on whether sites are allocated for a specified land use are made through Local Plans or Neighbourhood Plans.

• Draft HELAA Methodology (November 2025) (PDF, 852 KB)
• SLP HELAA Sites Map (November 2025)
• Draft Site Assessments (December 2023) (254 KB)
• Draft Site Assessment Rag Ratings (December 2023) (81 Kb)
• Draft HELAA Methodology (December, 2023) (PDF, 571 KB)
• HELAA FAQs (PDF, 253 KB)

Housing

Draft Joint Urban Capacity Study (August 2025)

• Joint Urban Capacity Study: Main text (PDF, 913 KB)
• Appendix 1: Gloucester Urban Capacity Study (PDF, 732)
• Appendix 2: Cheltenham Urban Capacity Study (PDF, 1.7 MB)
• Appendix 3: Tewkesbury Urban Capacity Study (540 KB)

• Housing Density Topic Paper (October 2025) (PDF, 1.7 MB)
• Residential above Shops Topic Paper (August 2025) (PDF, 373.7 KB)
• Gloucestershire Local Housing Needs Assessment 2020 (PDF, 3.54 MB)
• Gloucestershire Gypsy, Traveller and Travelling Showpeople Accommodation Assessment (November 2022) (PDF, 1.40 MB)

Economic development

• Gloucestershire Economic Needs Assessment (August 2020) (PDF, 7.37 MB)

Retail and city / town centres

• City, Town and Local Centres Topic Paper (October 2025)  (PDF 5.1 MB)

Draft Retail & Town Centres Study (Part 1) (October 2025)

• Retail & Town Centres Study (Part 1): Main Text (PDF, 2 MB)
• Retail & Town Centres Study (Part 1): Executive Summary (PDF, 363 KB)

Retail and City/Town Centre Review (March 2021)

• Retail and City/Town Centre Review, Executive Summary (PDF, 133 KB)
• Retail and City/Town Centre Review Volume 1, Main Text (PDF, 5MB)
• Retail and City/Town Centre Review Volume 2, Appendices (PDF, 1.35 MB)

Environment

• Cotswold Beechwoods Visitor Survey (November 2019) (PDF, 8.14 MB)
• Cotswold Beechwoods Mitigation Strategy (May 2022) (PDF, 5.59 MB)
• Severn Estuary Visitor Survey (October 2022) (PDF, 12.9 MB)
• Gloucestershire Local Nature Partnership Natural Capital Interactive Map

Infrastructure

• Settlement Hierarchy Topic Paper (November 2025) (PDF, 521 KB)

Renewable Energy Study

• SLP Renewable Energy Study: Stage 1 Strategic Potential, Executive Summary (December 2023) (PDF, 188KB)
• SLP Renewable Energy Study: Stage 1 Strategic Potential, Main Text (December 2023) (PDF, 4.85 MB)
• SLP Renewable Energy Study: Stage 1 Strategic Potential, Technical Appendices (December 2023) (PDF, 791 KB)
• SLP Renewable Energy Study: Stage 1 Strategic Potential, Maps (December 2023)(PDF, 57MB)

Sustainability Appraisal and Habitats Regulations Assessment

• Sustainability Appraisal (incorporating Strategic Environmental Assessment) Scoping Report (October 2020) (6.77MB)
• Sustainability Appraisal (incorporating Strategic Environmental Assessment) (December, 2023) (PDF, 2.89 MB)
• Habitats Regulation Assessment Scoping Report (December 2023) (PDF, 6.87 MB)

Transport

• Gloucestershire SLP Authorities Sustainable Transport Strategy Broad Site Assessment Report 2023

Consultation Documents

Regulation 18 Spatial Options and Key Policy Areas Consultation Report (January 2025)

• Regulation 18 Spatial Options and Key Policy Areas Consultation Report (PDF, 3 MB)
• Appendix 1: Questionnaire (PDF, 1.7 MB)
• Appendix 2: Young People (PDF, 731 MB)
• Appendix 3: In Person Events (PDF, 2.1 MB)
• Appendix 4: Online Workshops (PDF, 720 KB)
• Appendix 5: Sites (PDF, 120 KB)

• Regulation 18: Spatial Options and Key Policy Areas – Consultation Document (December 2023) (PDF, 1.67 MB)

Duty to Cooperate

• Gloucestershire Statement of Common Ground (February 2022) (PDF, 287KB)

Existing Evidence

Green Belt

• Joint Core Strategy Green Belt Assessment (September 2011) (PDF, 8.56 MB)

Landscape

• Joint Core Strategy Landscape Characterisation Assessment and Sensitivity Analysis (September 2013) (PDF, 9.44 MB) 

Other

• Cyber Central Vision (pdf, 3 MB)