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Council Plans
Design
- DES 001 Tewkesbury, Cheltenham and Gloucester – Strategic Design Code – high resolution (pdf 143MB)
- DES 001 Tewkesbury, Cheltenham and Gloucester – Strategic Design Code – low resolution (pdf 23.2MB)
- DES002 Tewkesbury Town Masterplan and Design Guide (pdf 36.6MB)
- DES003 Gloucester City Masterplan – Framework Masterplan Report (pdf 50.8MB)
Employment and Economy
- EE 001 Viability Assessment (x)
- EE 002 Employment Land Assessment (pdf 3.48MB)
- EE 003 Retail Study – Part 1 Summary (pdf 364KB)
- EE 004 Retail Study – Part 1 (pdf 2.02MB)
- EE 005 Draft Retail Study – Part 2 (x)
- EE 006 Annual Employment or ‘Non-Residential’ Monitoring Reports – Tewkesbury Borough Council
- EE 007 Annual Employment or ‘Non-Residential’ Monitoring Reports – Cheltenham Borough Council (2024/5) (pdf 666KB)
- EE 008 Annual Employment or ‘Non-Residential’ Monitoring Reports – Gloucester City Council (2025/6) (doc 70.1KB)
Environment and Sustainability
- ENV 001 Sustainability Appraisal (SA) / Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)
- ENV 002 Habitat Regulations Assessment
- ENV 003 Cotswold Beechwoods Recreation Mitigation Strategy (2022) (pdf 5.59MB)
- ENV 023 Cheltenham Focused Implementation Plan: Measures to Avoid Recreational Impacts at the Cotswold Beechwoods SAC (pdf 8.95MB)
- ENV 024 Climate Mitigation Summary Report (pdf 599KB)
- ENV 004 Carbon Budget Assessment (pdf 12.1MB)
- ENV 005 Gloucestershire Local Plans Net Zero Evidence Base ER2 Operational Energy Modelling (pdf 3.26MB)
- ENV 006 Overarching Literature Review – Climate (pdf 1.04MB)
- ENV 007 Literature Review – Climate – SLP Area (pdf 3.28)
- ENV 008 Policy Matrix – energy and carbon management (pdf 765KB)
- ENV 009 Gloucestershire Capital cost for net zero policies RESULTS (xlxs 22.6MB)
- ENV 010 Landscape Character Assessment
- ENV 011 Landscape Sensitivity Assessment of Sites
- ENV 012 Gloucestershire Green Belt Study (pdf 48.2MB)
- ENV 013 Gloucestershire Green Belt Assessment Potential for development of sites to fundamentally undermine the Green Belt (pdf 4.52MB)
- ENV 014 Strategic Flood Risk Assessment (Levels 1 & 2)
- ENV 015 Water Cycle Study
- ENV 016 Ecological Assessments of Sites
- ENV 017 Renewable Energy Study Part 1 – Executive Summary (pdf 187KB)
- ENV 018 Renewable Energy Study Part 1 – Main Report (pdf 4.73 MB)
- ENV 019 Renewable Energy Study Part 1 – Appendices (pdf 791KB)
- ENV 020 Renewable Energy Study Part 2 (pdf 1.54MB)
- ENV 021 Renewable Energy Study – Landscape Sensitivity Assessment (pdf 40MB)
- ENV 022 Draft Green and Blue Infrastructure Strategy (docx 22.6MB)
- ENV 025 Tree Strategy – Cheltenham (pdf 8.58MB)
Historic Environment
Housing
- HOU 001 Housing and Economic Needs Assessment (pdf 7.99MB)
- HOU 002 Gloucestershire Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation Needs Assessment (pdf 1.22MB)
- HOU 004 Gloucester Annual Housing Monitoring Report 2026 (docx 2.26MB)
- HOU 005 Tewkesbury Annual Housing Monitoring Report 2026
- HOU 006 Cheltenham 5 Year Housing Land Supply Statement 2026 (pdf 0.99MB)
- HOU 007 Gloucester 5 Year Housing Land Supply Statement 2026 (docx 189KB)
- HOU 008 Tewkesbury 5 Year Housing Land Supply Statement 2026 (pdf 861KB)
- HOU 009 Housing Trajectory (xlsx 33.3KB)
- HOU 010 Housing Trajectory – Market analysis (pdf 813KB)
- HOU 011 Housing and Economic Land Availability Assessment
- HOU 012 Housing and Economic Land Availability Assessment – Methodology (pdf 870KB)
- HOU 013 Cheltenham Urban Capacity Study 2025 (docx 10.5MB)
- HOU 014 Gloucester Urban Capacity Study 2025 (docx 378KB)
- HOU 015 Tewkesbury Urban Capacity Study 2025 (docx 308KB)
- HOU 016 Joint SLP Urban Capacity Study 2025 (docx 2.30MB)
- HOU 017 Settlement Hierarchy
- HOU 018 Housing Delivery Test Action Plan – Cheltenham (pdf 1.09MB)
Infrastructure
- INF 001 Infrastructure Delivery Plan – Part 1: Introduction & Reg 19 statement, chapters 1 – 4 (pdf 449KB)
- INF 002 Infrastructure Delivery Plan – Part 2: Chapters 5-13 (pdf 4.73MB)
- INF 003 Infrastructure Delivery Plan – Part 3: Funding Position (pdf 358KB)
- INF 004 Appendix A – Infrastructure Delivery Schedule (xlxs 213KB)
- INF 005 Appendix B – SLP Sites Calculator (xlxs 70.5KB)
- INF 006 Appendix C – Infrastructure Site Schedules (pdf 810KB)
Leisure
- LEI 001 Cheltenham & Tewkesbury Open Space Assessment Report 2016 (pdf 3.1MB)
- LEI 002 Cheltenham Open Space Study Standards Paper 2016 (pdf 736KB)
- LEI 003 Tewkesbury Open Space Study Standards Paper 2016 (pdf 845KB)
- LEI 004 Cheltenham & Tewkesbury Social, Sport, and Open Spaces Strategy 2017 (pdf 569KB)
- LEI 005 Cheltenham & Tewkesbury Developer Contributions Toolkit 2017 (pdf 722KB)
- LEI 006 Gloucester Open Space Strategy 2021-2026 (pdf 4.22MB)
- LEI 007 Cheltenham Playing Pitch & Action Plan 2025 (pdf 1.16MB)
- LEI 008 Cheltenham Built Leisure and Sports Facilities Strategy 2024-2041 (pdf 21.2MB)
- LEI 009 Cheltenham and Tewkesbury Playing Pitch Strategy Assessment Report 2016 (pdf 2.91MB)
- LEI 010 Tewkesbury Playing Pitch Strategy & Action Plan 2017 (pdf 2.08MB)
- LEI 011 Gloucester Playing Pitch Strategy 2015 (pdf 1.29MB)
- LEI 012 Gloucester Playing Pitch Strategy – Action Plan 2022 (pdf 365KB)
- LEI 013 Gloucester Indoor and Built Facilities Strategy 2019 (pdf 673KB)
Transport
- TRA 001 Strategic Transport Assessment (pdf 19.5MB)
- TRA 002 Strategic Transport Assessment – Appendix A – Vision and Validate Technical Note (pdf 2.31MB)
- TRA 003 Strategic Transport Assessment – Appendix B – Base Year Technical Note (pdf 1.75MB)
- TRA 004 Strategic Transport Assessment – Appendix C – Present Year Validation Technical Note (pdf 3.5MB)
- TRA 005 Strategic Transport Assessment – Appendix D – Forecasting Approach Technical Note (pdf 1.57MB)
- TRA 006 Strategic Transport Assessment – Appendix E – Trip Rate Technical Note (pdf 6.44MB)
- TRA 007 Strategic Transport Assessment – Appendix F – Spatial Option Technical Note (pdf 3.43MB)
- TRA 008 Strategic Transport Assessment – Appendix G – Long List and Costings (xlsx 494KB)
- TRA 0009 Initial Strategic Assessment Report: New Station West of Gloucester (pdf 4.98MB)
- TRA 010 Gloucestershire Local Transport Plan 2020 – 2041 Gloucestershire Local Transport Plan 2020-2041 | Gloucestershire County Council
- TRA 011 Gloucestershire Local Transport Plan Review Gloucestershire LTP | Gloucestershire County Council
Topic papers
- TP 001 CLG Climate Adaptation (docx 69.9KB)
- TP 002 City, Town and Local Centres Topic Paper (October 2025) (pdf 5.1 MB)
- TP 003 Residential above Shops Topic Paper (August 2025) (pdf 373.7 KB)
- TP 004 Housing Density Topic Paper (October 2025) (pdf 1.7 MB)
- TP 005 Settlement Hierarchy Topic Paper (November 2025) (pdf 521 KB)
- TP 006 Vision and Objectives Topic Paper (November 2025) (pdf 521 KB)
- TP 007 Vision and Objectives Topic Paper Appendix 1: Initial Vision and Objectives (November 2025) (pdf 201 KB)
- TP 008 Vision and Objectives Topic Paper Appendix 2: Summary of Regulation 18 Responses (November 2025) (pdf 218 KB)
- TP 009 Affordable Housing (pdf 685KB)
- TP 010 Gypsy and Traveller Topic Paper (pdf 1.22MB)
- TP 011 Green Belt Exceptional Circumstances (pdf 2MB)