Residents in Forest of Dean District will need to show photographic ID to vote in person at this year’s Police and Crime Commissioner elections which are being held on 2 May. 

Councillors voted in favour of appointing Cllr Adrian Birch as Leader of Forest of Dean District Council at the meeting for full council held on Thursday 18 April 2024. 

Forest of Dean District Council provides the following project update regarding the construction of the new leisure, enterprise and education facility at Five Acres in Berry Hill. 

Councillor Mark Topping has handed in his resignation as Leader of the Council. Councillor Topping has announced that he will be stepping down from the role on 18 April, the day of the Councils next Full Council meeting, where a new council leader will be voted on by Council. 

Young people studying for their Level 2 drylining diploma at Gloucestershire College’s Cinderford campus in the Forest of Dean downed tools last week, swapping them for litter pickers.