Community information for Wotton-under-Edge Ward
After a gap of about five years I recently attended a Police Powers Scrutiny Panel and was struck by how much the process has improved since I was last there.
Along with residents' casework and in addition to council and training meetings at Ebley Mill, Cllrs Kitchen, Braun & Cohen attended the regular council meetings at North Nibley, Stinchcombe & Wotton-under-Edge.
Work is formally under way on a new Local Plan that will help shape how the Stroud district develops over the coming years.
Panel Info: https://glostext.gloucestershire.gov.uk/mgCommitteeDetails.aspx?ID=650
Date of meeting: 11th September 2026
Summary of Meeting
The HMICFRS PEEL 2025-27 inspection report into Gloucestershire Constabulary landed recently, and frankly it makes for grim reading. I sit on the Police and Crime Panel, so I've been through it properly, and it raises serious questions about how our county is policed and who should be held to account.
I've had a lot of correspondence about the party conference “Zionism is Racism” motion, much of it from Jewish constituents and party members who are worried about what it signals.
🏥 A fully publicly owned NHS – GPs, dentistry and ophthalmology back in public hands
So, the “Zionism is Racism” motion passed at conference, and as a Green Party councillor I will represent the policy our members have democratically decided.
Along with residents' casework and in addition to council and training meetings at Ebley Mill, Cllrs Kitchen, Braun & Cohen attended the regular council meetings at North Nibley, Stinchcombe & Wotton-under-Edge.
Government is fundamentally changing the guidance on how planning applications are decided locally.