Could this development steal the Golden Valley’s thunder?

With all eyes on the £1 billion Golden Valley Development, a relatively low-profile scheme elsewhere in Gloucestershire - also of potentially huge economic impact - is quietly progressing.

Dear reader,

Welcome to the first edition of the week. We hope your Monday has gone well.

We’ll dive straight into introducing the edition today, which includes the usual briefing notes, plus a short piece about neurodiversity.

We keep talking about it, about how we’re learning to understand what it means, what it means for those of us who are neurodiverse, and how individuals who are neurodiverse can benefit businesses and organisations. But how on earth do you achieve the latter and why is it important to give it some serious thought?

That’s the subject of the first lead article.

But the main story that leads the edition turns attention to a proposed development that appears to have passed many people by.

You’ll possibly have seen it reported elsewhere as ‘a big housing development’, but it’s much more than that.

Together with other plans moving along nicely very close to the site, plus some recent announcements on a national scale, we are talking about a scheme that all in all could have…