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Cotswold is a local government district in Gloucestershire, England. It is named after the wider Cotswolds region. Its main town is Cirencester. Other notable towns include Tetbury, Moreton-in-Marsh, Stow-on-the-Wold and Chipping Campden. Notable villages in the district include Bourton-on-the-Water, Blockley, Kemble and Upper Rissington among other villages and hamlets in the district. Cotswold District Council is composed of 34 councillors elected from 32 wards.

Cotswold District
Non-metropolitan district
Cirencester, the administrative centre of the Cotswold District
Cotswold shown within Gloucestershire
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	South West England
Non-metropolitan county	Gloucestershire
Status	Non-metropolitan district
Admin HQ	Cirencester
Incorporated	1 April 1974
Government
• Type	Non-metropolitan district council
• Body	Cotswold District Council
• Leadership	Joe Harris Leader & Cabinet (Liberal Democrats)
• MPs	Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
Area
• Total	449.6 sq mi (1,164.5 km2)
• Rank	23rd (of 309)
Population  (mid-2019 est.)
• Total	89,862
• Rank	270th (of 309)
• Density	200/sq mi (77/km2)
• Ethnicity	98.8% White
Time zone	UTC0 (GMT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (BST)
ONS code	23UC (ONS) E07000079 (GSS)
OS grid reference	SP0221002304
Website	www.cotswold.gov.uk

It was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the urban district of Cirencester with Cirencester Rural District, North Cotswold Rural District, Northleach Rural District, and Tetbury Rural District. The population of the Cotswold District in the 2011 Census was 83,000.[1]

Eighty per cent of the district lies within the River Thames catchment area, with the Thames itself and several tributaries including the River Windrush and River Leach running through the district. Lechlade in an important point on the river as the upstream limit of navigation. In the 2007 floods in the UK, rivers were the source of flooding of 53 per cent of the locations affected and the Thames at Lechlade reached record levels with over 100 reports of flooding.[2]

The District is spread over 450 square miles, with some 80% of the land located within the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.[3][1] The much larger area referred to as the Cotswolds encompasses nearly 800 square miles,[4] over five counties: Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, and Worcestershire.[5] This large Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty had a population of 139,000 in 2016.[6]

Cotswold District Council
Type
Type	Non-metropolitan district
Leadership
Leader	Joe Harris, Liberal Democrats since 14 May 2019
Chief Executive	Robert Weaver
Structure
Seats	34 councillors
Liberal Democrat	18 / 34
Conservative	14 / 34
Green	1 / 34
Independent	1 / 34
Elections
Voting system	First past the post
Last election	2 May 2019
Meeting place
Council Chamber, Cotswold District Council, Trinity Road, Cirencester
Website
www.cotswold.gov.uk

Political control

Since the first elections to the council in 1973 political control of the council has been held by the following parties:[7]

Party in control		Years
	Independent	1973–1999
	No overall control	1999–2003
	Conservative	2003–2019
	Liberal Democrats	2019–present

Leadership

The leaders of the council since the post was created in 2001 have been:[8]

Councillor	Party		From	To
Les Brown		Independent	10 May 2001	20 May 2003
Julie Girling		Conservative	20 May 2003	9 May 2006
Lynden Stowe[9]		Conservative	9 May 2006	16 May 2017
Mark Annett[10]		Conservative	16 May 2017	11 December 2018
Tony Berry[10]		Conservative	11 Dec 2018	14 May 2019
Joe Harris		Liberal Democrats	14 May 2019	Incumbent

Chairs of the Council

Councillor	Party		From	To
D C Leadbeater MBE		Independent	1973	1976
C Staite		Independent	1976	1977
J Clark		Independent	1977	1981
I Lamb		Conservative	1981	1983
H Groves		Independent	1983	1986
P Cutts		Independent	1986	1989
I Maitland Hume		Independent	1989	1991
D Godman		Independent	1991	1993
M Brown		Independent	1993	1995
Sue Herdman		Independent	1995	1998
P Pretty		Independent	1998	1999
B Evans		Independent	1999	2001
Tim Royle		Conservative	2001	2004
Sue Jepson		Conservative	2004	2007
Sheila Jeffery		Conservative	2007	2009
Ben Jeffrey		Conservative	2009	2010
Carolyn Nicolle		Conservative	2010	2012
Sir Edward Horsfall		Conservative	2012	2014
Clive Bennett		Conservative	2014	2015
Mark Annett		Conservative	2015	2017
Julian Beale		Conservative	2017	2019
Nigel Robbins OBE		Liberal Democrats	2019	2021
Dr Dilys Neill		Liberal Democrats	2021	Incumbent

Responsibilities

The law requires councils to provide some services. Councils decide the amount of resources given to these depending on the level of need or risk they present.

The statutory functions of Cotswold District Council include:

• Organising local and national elections
• Local plans and development management
• Building control
• Housing policy and homelessness prevention
• Housing benefits
• Environmental health
• Council Tax and Non-Domestic Rates collection
• Waste and recycling
• Street cleansing
• Street name plates (Street signs)
• Food safety and water sampling
• Health, safety and licensing

Cotswold District Council also provides a number of discretionary services:

• Managing some car parks
• Promoting economic development
• Tourism, culture and events
• Providing some leisure facilities
• Providing some grants to voluntary organisations

Cabinet

Joe Harris appointed the following Cabinet in May 2022.[11]

Office		Party	Name
Leader and Cabinet Member for Housing		Liberal Democrats	Joe Harris
Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Finance		Liberal Democrats	Mike Evemy
Cabinet Member for Climate Change and Forward Planning		Liberal Democrats	Rachel Coxcoon
Cabinet Member for Corporate Services		Liberal Democrats	Lisa Spivey
Cabinet Member for Waste and Recycling		Liberal Democrats	Andrew Doherty
Cabinet Member for the Economy and Council Transformation		Liberal Democrats	Tony Dale
Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing		Liberal Democrats	Jenny Forde
Cabinet Member for Regulatory Services		Liberal Democrats	Juliet Layton

Current councillors

There are 34 councillors. After the May 2019 election, there are 18 Liberal Democrats, 14 Conservatives, one independent and one Green.

Ward	Councillor	Party
Abbey	Mark Harris		Liberal Democrats
Blockley	Sue Jepson		Conservative
Bourton Vale	Richard Keeling		Conservative
Bourton Village	Nick Maunder		Liberal Democrats
Campden and Vale	Gina Blomefield		Conservative
	Mark Annett		Conservative
Chedworth and Churn Valley	Jenny Forde		Liberal Democrats
Chesterton	Roly Hughes		Liberal Democrats
Coln Valley	Ray Theodoulou		Conservative
Ermin	Julia Judd		Conservative
Fairford North	Andrew Doherty		Liberal Democrats
Fosseridge	Julian Beale		Conservative
Four Acres	Ray Brassington		Liberal Democrats
Grumbolds Ash with Avening	Richard Morgan		Conservative
Kemble	Tony Berry		Conservative
Lechlade, Kempsford and Fairford South	Stephen Andrews		Conservative
	Steve Trotter		Conservative
Moreton East	Rachel Coxcoon		Liberal Democrats
Moreton West	Clive Webster		Liberal Democrats
New Mills	Claire Bloomer		Liberal Democrats
Northleach	Tony Dale		Liberal Democrats
Sandywell	Robin Hughes		Conservative
Siddington and Cerney Rural	Mike Evemy		Liberal Democrats
South Cerney Village	Juliet Layton		Liberal Democrats
St Michael's	Joe Harris		Liberal Democrats
Stow	Dilys Neill		Liberal Democrats
Stratton	Patrick Coleman		Liberal Democrats
Tetbury East and Rural	Nikki Ind		Independent
Tetbury Central	Stephen Hirst		Conservative
Tetbury with Upton	Richard Norris		Conservative
The Ampneys and Hampton	Lisa Spivey		Liberal Democrats
The Beeches	Nigel Robbins OBE		Liberal Democrats
The Rissingtons	Andrew Maclean		Green
Watermoor	Gary Selwyn		Liberal Democrats

May 2019 local elections result dispute

Nigel Adams, Cotswold District Council's returning officer and its "head of paid services" reportedly decided a tied result between two candidates in the Tetbury Town ward by allocating a spoiled ballot paper that had the word "BREXIT" written across it in favour of the Conservative candidate, Stephen Hirst. The hitherto tied candidate, Independent David Painter, described it as a "travesty of justice" and said "no wonder people are turned off voting". Painter sought to raise £2,500 to begin a legal challenge against the returning officer's decision.[12]

References

Media related to Cotswold at Wikimedia Commons

External links

• By-election results

На других языках

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[ru] Котсуолд (район)

Котсуолд (англ. Cotswold) — район в графстве Глостершир на юго-западе Англии. Назван в честь гряды Котсуолдс, на территории которой находится[1]. Главный город — Сайренсестер, рядом с которым находится исток реки Темзы. В городе Леглейд также находится самая высокая точка реки, в которой она является судоходной[2].

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