A date has been announced for an important meeting to discuss plans to build nearly 2,500 houses in Cirencester.

A meeting to consider the outline application by Bathurst Development Ltd (BDL) for a mixed-use development at Chesterton has been scheduled by Cotswold District Council for Tuesday, 26 September.

It will begin at 1pm and, to accommodate as many members of the public as possible, the venue will be the Cirencester Baptist Church on Chesterton Lane.

Formal notification about the special meeting and arrangements will be sent out in due course

The BDL application comprises the erection of up to 2,350 residential dwellings, and provision of employment land, a primary school, a neighbourhood centre, community facilities, public open space, allotments, and playing fields on land at Chesterton Farm, Cranhams Lane, Cirencester.