Cyber Central, Cheltenham Cheltenham has been home to GCHQ since the 1950s and the current Donut has been in place for around two decades. It is next door where the next phase of development will occur. A £45 million land purchase at the end of the decade saw Cheltenham Borough Council find the land for what will be the home of the UK’s cyber technology sector. Add in a ‘garden community’ around the site, and the west of Cheltenham will be transformed, setting the town up as one of the places to do business in the 21st century.
Brimscombe Port Project
One of Stroud’s five valleys is set to be completely transformed, with a mixed-used development alongside the Thames and Severn Canal. When complete, 150 new homes, community facilities and business space would sit alongside a new canal basin, where once the thriving inland Brimscombe Port sat in its 19th century heyday. Plans for the first part of the development, which include a distillery, brewery, antique emporium, restaurant and – because it is in Stroud, after all – a wellbeing centre, have already been lodged.
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