Nearly 400 new energy-efficient homes announced for Gloucester

A housing developer has said it will build at least 390 new homes in Gloucester in the next five years - more detail to explain how the city could accommodate 13,600-plus homes in the next 20 years!

Dear Readers,

We hope you had a great weekend and your Monday has gone well. Welcome to the first edition of The Raikes Journal of the week.

If you missed it on Friday we introduced you to our latest Founding Partner, Merrell People, one of the growing stable of businesses that are making this community interest company possible and enabling us to deliver you some interesting journalism supporting the county. You can do that here.

We’ve broken up the format slightly today. It still has our usual collection of news briefing notes, and we introduce you to a ‘charity’ - but we’ve covered off two stories instead of one big read.

The first article is the second in a series we are running to help pre-promote the Cirencester Business Awards.

The second was a piece of news that caught our eye about nearly 400 new energy efficient homes planned for Gloucester - but a number that pales alongside the total planned for the city, and Cheltenham and Tewkesbury for that matter, over the news few years. W…