Cyber Central garden community

Cheltenham and Tewkesbury councils are working together to drive a world-class development at West Cheltenham known as Cyber Central garden community. Our vision is to create a vibrant pioneering community integrating hi-tech business, residential and leisure uses. It will require the highest standards of environmental sustainability integrating exemplar homes as part of a thriving campus and garden community.

This planning framework, called a supplementary planning document (SPD), provides a broad masterplan setting out important principles including connections from existing neighbourhoods, the design of green spaces, new homes, employment spaces and community facilities. This SPD follows on from the allocation of this land for the development in principle through the adopted Gloucester, Cheltenham and Tewkesbury Joint Core Strategy (2017). Going forward this SPD will inform planning application submissions on the site.

Read the SPD and its appendix:

• Golden Valley SPD
• Appendix part 1
• Appendix part 2
• SPD Adoption Statement

Get involved

A consultation was undertaken during the period from 13 January up until 17 February 2020.

We also encouraged residents to come along to a drop-in event to talk through the masterplan SPD with the planning team:

• Thursday 23 January, 12:30pm - 3:30pm, Springbank Community Centre, GL51 0LG
• Thursday 23 January, 4.30pm – 7.30pm, Hester’s Way Community Centre, GL51 7SU
• Saturday 1 February, 10.30am – 1.30pm, Regent Arcade, High St, Cheltenham GL50 1JZ
• Saturday 1 February, 2:30pm - 5:30pm Tewkesbury - Cheltenham West Community Fire Station Tewkesbury Road, GL51 9SN

Read the press release from December 2019 for a for further information.

The following documents are available to view:

• A presentation on the development
• The submitted garden communities bid
• The Cyber Central vision