This Gloucestershire borough is one of the top five fastest growing in the UK
Long-standing Gloucestershire-based Business West man and former editor Ian Mean will send his copy to anyone, but with his connections and insight it is really rather good! This is no exception.
Tewkesbury is fast becoming a veritable powerhouse for business growth as more companies move into the area and the magnet for young families setting up home there, writes Ian Mean.
In an interview with the new leader of Tewkesbury Borough Council, councillor Richard Stanley, Mean, now of Business West and a former editor of the Western Daily Press, asks him how the area is going to cope with the tremendous growth coming its way.
Tewkesbury’s housing growth over the next 20 years will be massive-far more than any other part of Gloucestershire.
And how many people know that Tewkesbury Borough has the fourth highest economy out of 331 boroughs in the UK?
I certainly didn’t.
But what we don’t probably realise is that many of the large employers-companies like Safran- are more close to Gloucester or Cheltenham in proximity but are actually in Tewkesbury borough.
So, why haven’t the council shouted more about their business growth and their plans to attract more more companies?
Councill…
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