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The Parish of Hucclecote is now known as a Civil Parish as it no longer has a church within its boundary. The original parish council was formed in December 1894 and covered the whole area of Hucclecote. In April 1967, the construction of the M5 motorway effectively cut the parish in two; the part of Hucclecote below the motorway bridge towards Gloucester was taken into the boundary of Gloucester City. The remainder of Hucclecote stayed as part of the Rural District Council. In 1974 Tewkesbury Borough Council was formed from the old Tewkesbury Town Council, part of Cheltenham Rural District Council and part of Gloucester Rural District Council. A map showing the parish boundary is attached.
The Coopers Edge development is being built on the former airfield on land owned originally by Gloucester Aircraft Company. Part of the runway, where the first British jet engined plane the E28/39 was tested, was within our Parish. The plane depicted in our web site banner is a painting of this first plane, by the artist Mark Postlethwaite who has kindly given permission for us to use the image. The Coopers Edge development will consist of 1900 homes, a school, shops, community centre, public open spaces and sports facilities. Unfortunately, this development is being built across two district council boundaries and three parish council boundaries. This will lead to much confusion over who is responsible for what area. Waste collection and recycling will be handled differently in the two district councils and local issues, which could be dealt with at parish level, will have three different parish offices.
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Volunteer Stewards Required for Olympic Torch Relay
Would you like to volunteer to be a roadside Steward when the Olympic Torch passes through Brockworth on the afternoon of Wed 23rd May this year? Your duties, along with other volunteer stewards, would be to simply stand by the roadside to ensure the safety of the public.
You would report to the Command Post in the area of The Chase Hotel at 3pm on the day and be finished by around 5:45pm. You will be issued with a Hi Viz vest and given both a verbal and written brief on your duties. All the emergency services will be on site as the Torch passes through so in the event of any security alerts or public order disturbances the Police will take command of the situation. You will be present solely as crowd safety.
Please volunteer by e mailing neil.meynell@tewkesbury.gov.uk giving your name, gender and age (must be 16 and over) and I will email you back straight away with full details
Annual Parish Assembly
The annual parish assembly and Annual Parish Council meeting are both to be held on 21st May at 6:30pm.