Please read the suggested tips and advice on how you can reduce the amount you put out for collection. While we’re all staying at home we’re generating much more waste and recycling than normal. At the same time the number of staff we have available has been reduced due to illness and self-isolation. Help us […]

If you or anyone you know has a letter from the NHS advising you to shield against Covid-19 then consider signing up for the Priority Services Register. It allows Wales & West Utilities to prioritise vulnerable customers with electricity or gas supply issues. For more information on Priority Services Register, Click Here.

Everyone at Cotswold District Council would like to wish Phyllis Hiron a very Happy 101st Birthday! Working with the Gloucestershire Community Help Hub, our officers arranged for a very special birthday surprise for Phyllis while her family is unable to visit due to self-isolation. Our officers are going above and beyond for our residents and […]

Join Cotswold District Council leader Cllr Joe Harris and councillors Mike Evemy and Lisa Spivey for a live Q&A from the Barn Theatre answering all of your questions! Send your questions for upcoming Q&As to joe.harris@cotswold.gov.uk or comment below in the stream. You can watch live from the Cotswold District Council Facebook page and Barn […]

Local business? We’re mailing (and emailing) important support information to local businesses about: * Business Grants (for small and retail/hospitality/leisure businesses)* Business Rates (April payments deferred)* Job Retention Scheme guidance Details in our email: https://mailchi.mp/aded46d574cd/business-matters-cotswold-31-march-2020?e=79d740d400 and on our website. Sign-up to our “Business Matters” newsletter to get business related updates and news. Link: https://www.cotswold.gov.uk/coronavirus-business

If you have food nearing its ‘use by’ date or leftovers that are still edible, why not freeze them for later? Throwing food away should be a last resort! Check out www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/ for some great tips on food storage and meal inspiration!

The first session starts today at 3.30pm and is being streamed live from the Barn Theatre in Cirencester via the district council’s facebook page. Cllr Harris will be joined in the first session by the council’s cabinet member for waste, Cllr Andrew Doherty and via video link by cabinet member for health, wellbeing and public […]

Waste and recycling collections (Friday 27th March) in Fairford, Lechlade and some of the surrounding villages that also have Friday collections. It’s a full collection tomorrow (but not garden waste which is now suspended) so food, plastics, tins, cans, paper, glass, cardboard and your remaining non-recyclable waste all go out tomorrow. This is the new […]

If you had a problem with food collections today and your food caddy was not emptied today I apologise. There will be a catch-up collection in our areas on Monday. Please either leave your bins out until Monday or put them out again on Sunday evening. If you leave the bin out do make sure […]

Police have been out on patrol of open spaces today and found 17 persons at Broadway Tower having “A Day Out”. These person had travelled from as far afield as Birmingham and Coventry. Also we were told of other travelling from Leamington Spa, Evesham , Pershore and Upper Rissington. These distances are to far to […]