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Events What's On in Cheltenham: the Literature Festival, Then The Wilson Reopens Property Cheltenham house prices stall at 0.3% after three monthly falls Planning Cheltenham Green Belt vote: nine questions on the evidence

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  1. Sun 4 Oct Getting Triggy With It: Matt Parker Does The Maths 7.30pm · Cheltenham Town Hall · From £28
  2. Mon 5 Oct The Rock Orchestra 5.30pm · Cheltenham Town Hall · From £39
  3. 6 to 11 Oct Annie Everyman Theatre
  4. 9 to 18 Oct Cheltenham Literature Festival Venues across Cheltenham
  5. Fri 9 Oct Cheltenham Farmers' Market 9am · The Promenade

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Christmas Cheltenham Christmas Market 2026: Promenade, 10 to 23 Dec Cheltenham Christmas Market runs 10 to 23 December on the Promenade, with 40 wooden stalls and free entry. Parking is free from 3pm on the 10th. No ice rink. · 3 min read Christmas Santa in Cheltenham 2026: Steam Trains and Grottos GWSR's Santa Express is £32 a seat and now leaves only from Toddington; 20 December is sold out. Webbs' grotto on Evesham Road is £15 a child from 5 Dec. · 4 min read Remembrance Cheltenham Remembrance Sunday 2026: Promenade, 8 November Remembrance Sunday is 8 November. Cheltenham's service at the Promenade war memorial has begun at 10.50am two years running; veterans form up at 10.35am. · 3 min read Racing Cheltenham Racecourse This Winter: Every Date to New Year Cheltenham's jump season opens on 23 October, then races in November, December and on New Year's Day from £13.50. Under-18s go free. Dates and gate times. · 4 min read Community Cheltenham community groups can bid for £230,000 from Monday £230,000 of developer money opens to Cheltenham community groups on 28 September, nearly 80% more than in 2025. Who can bid, and the 15 December deadline. · 5 min read Parking Cheltenham Zone 15 parking made permanent, no objections Cheltenham Zone 15 parking became permanent on 9 September after six months with no objections. Match-day controls on five roads, four streets freed. · 6 min read Housing Cheltenham council housing offices close, drop-ins 5 Oct Cheltenham council housing offices at Hesters Way and Oakley close on 23 September. Nine weekly drop-in sessions start 5 October, leaving a 12-day gap. · 5 min read Planning Cheltenham Green Belt: 750 homes and an October plan vote Councillors approve the plan that allocates sites in October, and its published Green Belt evidence dates from 2011. Residents want alternatives tested first. · 7 min read Jobs Cheltenham claimant count: 2,095 in August, over-50s rise 2,095 people in Cheltenham were on unemployment benefits in August, 2.7% of 16 to 64s. Hesters Way is highest at 5.6%; all 20 wards, by age and trend. · 8 min read Business Cheltenham BID names Julie Reader-Sullivan chief executive Julie Reader-Sullivan, former chief executive of Headway Gloucestershire, will lead the town centre business levy body after Fran Inman steps down in September. · 3 min read Property Cheltenham house prices up 2.2%, now behind Tewkesbury Cheltenham's average home is £325,399, up £7,107 in a year. Tewkesbury borough is now dearer, and only one Gloucestershire district grew more slowly. · 5 min read Council Cheltenham PSPO: overnight camping ban proposed borough-wide Sleeping out overnight anywhere in Cheltenham would need council consent under a renewed PSPO that also targets aggressive begging. Comments close 19 October. · 5 min read
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Cheltenham is a town that gets averaged away. Almost every figure published about it covers the whole borough, or the whole of Gloucestershire, and the answer for Charlton Kings or Benhall or Pittville is somewhere else entirely. Two postcode sectors barely three miles apart differ by £316,250 on the median house. The direct train to London heads west before it heads east. The council writing the next local plan spent a year preparing to abolish itself, and was told in September to stop.

This site covers Cheltenham and Charlton Kings, Prestbury, Leckhampton, Up Hatherley, Swindon Village, Benhall, Hesters Way, Pittville, Montpellier, Lansdown and Warden Hill. We read what the councils, operators and venues publish, and we link the source every time.

Start with these

  • Cheltenham house prices: a £330,000 median across the borough, and the £316,250 gap between Charlton Kings and the streets west of the High Street.
  • Trains to London: 1h 55m at best, 16 direct services a day, no direct train at all in the 8am hour, and a £13,576 annual season ticket.
  • Roadworks and travel: the £372m M5 Junction 10 rebuild running to spring 2029, what is closed this month, and every council car park tariff.
  • Things to do: thirteen days out with checked 2026 prices, six of them free, including the national nature reserve designated in June.
  • Planning news: 821 homes a year required, 2.69 years of land supply, and the two strategic sites the whole plan rests on.

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