Cheltenham is governed at local level by a combination of councils:

Gloucestershire County Council (currently under a Conservative administration with the Liberal Democrats as the main opposition party) is responsible for major spending areas such as schools and education, social services, waste disposal (but not collection) and transport and roads through their agency Gloucestershire Highways. Contact details:

Gloucestershire County Council
Shire Hall
Gloucester GL1 2TG

www.gloucestershire.gov.uk
01452 425000 (8.30am- 5pm, Monday – Friday)
Social care out-of-hours emergencies: 01452 614194
Glos Highways out-of-hours emergencies: 08000 514514
Minicom (for those with hearing difficulties): 01452 426460
County Councillors represent large ‘divisions’.  To find you r local county councillor, click here.

Cheltenham Borough Council (currently under Liberal Democrat administration with the Conservatives as the main opposition party) is responsible for local planning permission, council housing (along with their agency Cheltenham Borough Homes), leisure facilities, environmental health, waste collection (but not disposal) and for running some key local buildings such as the Town Hall, Pittville Pumproom and the Art Gallery & Museum. Contact details: 

Cheltenham Borough Council
Municipal Offices
Promenade
Cheltenham
Gloucestershire GL50 9SA

www.cheltenham.gov.uk

01242 262626

Borough Councillors represent ‘wards’ much smaller than the county ‘divisions’.  To find your local borough councilor, click here.

parish councils
Some but not all parts of Cheltenham are also represented by one of five parish councils.  They have important rights to be consulted on planning issues and can have powers to  manage local pathways, green spaces, monuments and buildings.  Don’t believe the Vicar of Dibley though– they are elected and have no connection to religious parishes or vicars!  Each does have its own paid official, the Parish Clerk.

The five parish councils are:

• Leckhampton & Warden Hill

Mrs A Winstone
Clerk to Leckhampton Parish Council
7 Aldershaw Close
Up Hatherley
Cheltenham
GL51 3TP

01242 518008
leckwardenhillpc@btinternet.com

• Up Hatherley

Mrs K Oakey
Clerk to Up Hatherley Parish Council
15 Holmer Crescent
Up Hatherley
Cheltenham
GL51 3LR
01242 527770
uphatherleypc.clerk@blueyonder.co.uk

• Charlton Kings

 Mr A J Potts
Clerk to Charlton Kings Parish Council
26 Church Street
Church Piece
Charlton Kings
Cheltenham
GL53 8AR

01242 250087
ckparishcouncil@btconnect.com

• Prestbury

Mr K Thomas 
Clerk to Prestbury Parish Council
c/o Cheltenham Racecourse
Evesham Road
Prestbury
Cheltenham
GL50 4SH

01242 527571
prestburyparish@btconnect.com

• Swindon Village

Mr S J Holley
Clerk to Swindon Parish Council
87 Curlew Road
Abbeydale
Gloucester
GL4 4TF
01452 543914
parish.clerk@swindonparish.org.uk