Garden Communities

Tewkesbury Borough is growing fast, with high economic growth and an increasing population.

Tewkesbury Borough Council has a role to play to ensure that we manage this growth in the best possible way. This includes planning for the building of new homes rather than letting development take place in an ad hoc manner, and supporting businesses so that they can flourish and continue to provide employment and prosperity.

Garden Town Status

Tewkesbury has ‘Garden Town’ status, which reflects the scale of the proposed development. This will be made up of a series of linked Garden Communities which will respond to existing constraints and opportunities whilst also enabling the delivery of shared supporting infrastructure. There will be a particular focus on minimising transport impacts, creating links to the existing town centre and delivering a comprehensive drainage solution.

Tewkesbury Garden Communities

The goal of our proposed garden communities is to help create vibrant, multi-use and characterful areas where people can live, work and play for generations to come.

The new communities will be located to the east of the M5 motorway, spanning across the railway and north and south of the A46.

Hand-in-hand with development, we also need to make sure there is a matching provision of healthcare, education and community facilities.

The Tewkesbury Garden Communities programme aims to do just this, striving to maintain an environmentally sustainable approach to development while helping local communities to flourish.