Despite claims from the Conservative Administration that this Budget will see the Cheltenham to Bishop’s Cleeve cycle track delivered, there remains a £4.6million blackhole that they offer no answers for.

The Conservative administration amended a Liberal Democrat motion to repair public confidence in Gloucestershire’s highways, claiming that our pothole riddled highways are the fault of Covid-19.

Liberal Democrat Councillors are bringing a motion to Gloucestershire County Council, with the aim of repairing public confidence in Gloucestershire’s highways. 

Under questioning from Lib Dem members of the Environment Committee, the Conservative Cabinet Member responsible for Climate Change said, “are we going to reduce the county’s emissions by 80 per cent by 2030? No, we’re not.”

Under questioning from Cllr Paul Hodgkinson, two water companies operating in Gloucestershire admitted they have no plans to ever stop dumping raw sewage in the county’s rivers while the third will continue for another 30 years.

The Cotswolds is consistently the worst performing district in Gloucestershire for ambulance response times, not once hitting the average target of seven minutes for category one calls over the last 22 months.  Now, Gloucestershire Liberal Democrats are demanding a solution.

Following a Cabinet decision to reallocate money from the Bishops Cleeve to Cheltenham cycle-track to a highways capacity scheme, the Cabinet Member for Finance conceded that there was no guarantee that funding for the cycle-track will ever be found, meaning it may never be built. 

The Liberal Democrat opposition on Gloucestershire County Council have called-in the Conservatives’ decision to take funding away from the Cheltenham to Bishops Cleeve cycle-track and allocate it instead to highways improvements.

At a meeting of today’s Audit and Governance Committee, the independent auditor admitted that an earlier draft of their report into the value for money of the Javelin Park waste incinerator – in which the auditor said they were minded to produce a “Report in the Public Interest” (or “Public Interest Report”) – was amended following correspondence from Gloucestershire County Council. 

Gloucestershire Liberal Democrats brought a motion to Full Council on 8 September calling for a commitment to lift all areas in the county out of deprivation – a call which the Conservatives rejected.