16 April 2026 The Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012 (Regulation 16) – Cotswold District Council is seeking views on the Plan. All comments will be forwarded for consideration by an Independent Examiner. If the Plan passes examination, it will be put to a local referendum and residents, who are registered to vote, will get a […]
January 2026 Reg 16 Neighbourhood Plan Submitted. Cirencester Town Council, as recommended by the Steering Group, has submitted the Regulation 16 Neighbourhood Plan to Cotswold District Council, as the local planning authority. We are now working through some minor amendments and preparing the document for Reg 16 public consultation.
Thank you to everyone who responded to the Regulation 14 consultation and visited the exhibition. We are now collating, and reading through, every comment from statutory consultees and members of the public. Over the next 6 weeks we will review the Regulation 14 document and prepare the Regulation 16 Neighbourhood Plan. Our current timeframe is […]
Over the past four years, Cirencester Town Council (CTC) has been leading on and supporting the preparation of a Cirencester Neighbourhood Plan (CNP) by a Steering Group comprising a dedicated group of community representatives, Councillors and officers from Cirencester Town Council and Cotswold District Council and supported by our consultant, Feria Urbanism. It includes the […]
The Cirencester Neighbourhood Plan is moving forward but still needs your input. A six-week public consultation (known as Regulation 14), where we ask for opinion on the draft Plan and 38 proposed policies, begins on the 1st February and ends on 17th March 2024. We have arranged a number of ways the public can view […]
Cirencester Neighbourhood Plan 2022 Roundup 2022 has been a busy year for Cirencester’s Neighbourhood Planning Steering Group (NPSG). Since welcoming many of you to our 3-day public Engagement Event at the Corinium Museum last December, we have been working hard to consolidate and develop your views and ideas and to ensure they are properly evidenced […]
The Cirencester Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group organised and ran an exhibition over three days in early December. This comprised a poster display, interactive tasks and a slideshow presentation. Here, you can download copies of the posters and watch a video of the slideshow presentation. If you have any comments or ideas that you wish to […]
We are looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible, at our Winter Engagement Event, at the Corinium Museum in Park Street. The event begins tomorrow at 12noon and will run over the next few days. At key points throughout the event, there will be a short slideshow presentation from our professional consultant. This […]
The Steering Group would like to say a heartfelt thanks to all who recently commented on the Draft Vision Statement, Aims & Objectives and Emerging Policy Areas for Cirencester, set out in the Progress Report we shared in the Summer. Having consolidated the feedback with the body of work already undertaken, the next step, with […]
Having engaged widely with the community and with local groups and businesses in March 2020 and then carried out a great deal of research into the issues facing Cirencester, during the Spring of 2021 the Steering Group engaged a Planning Consultant (Feria Urbanism). The Steering Group then consulted again via a series of digital themed […]