Stroud Town Council

Stroud Town Council is a larger town council that is committed to improving the quality of life of all members of its community. The council provides core support to a range of partner organisations involved in regeneration and meeting key social needs of its residents, as well as supporting arts development in the town. It is made up of 18 elected councillors representing the six wards of Central, Farmhill and Paganhill, Slade, Trinity, Uplands and Valley. The council staff work in two teams headed by the Town Clerk. The office team includes a Deputy Clerk, a Project Officer, a Community Development Officer, a Nature Recovery and Climate Action Officer, three part-time administration staff (Assistant Clerk, Administration Officer, Finance Administrator) and a cleaner. The Green Spaces team includes three full-time Rangers and a part-time assistant led by the Green Spaces Manager. The Green Spaces team are responsible for the day-to-day management of the green and open spaces around the town. These include two town centre gardens, two cemeteries (one active and one closed), five play areas, two closed churchyards and a number of amenity spaces. The council owns five allotment sites providing just under 200 plots. Each site is managed on our behalf by a plot-holder association. We have shown long term commitment to improving the environment, for example, by taking on the management of parks and green spaces in the town, increasing the number of open spaces with public access and improving the quality of children's play areas. We have an established reputation for taking a leading role in community development. We sustain three community grants programmes and a number of service level agreements with voluntary and community sector organisations. We are a Quality Council and have adopted the General Power of Competence.