Invest in the Cotswolds
The Cotswold District is a great place to run your business. As well as its famed landscape and beautiful towns and villages, the area offers:
- a highly-skilled workforce
- the best digitally-connected rural district in the country
- lots of impressive digital and high-tech businesses
- available land
We are home to great businesses ranging from FTSE100 financial services giant St James’s Place, a number of high-tech medical supply companies and thousands of smaller microbusinesses. We also have respected institutions like the Royal Agricultural University in Cirencester, the Fire Service College at Moreton-in-Marsh and the Campden BRI food innovation centre at Chipping Campden.
If you are interested in investing in the area, please contact our Economic Development Team at economic.development@cotswold.gov.uk or phone 01285 623558.
For details of the support available for training and skills, visit www.skillsportalglos.com.
Available sites for commercial development
There are a number of sites in the District which have been allocated for commercial development in our Local Plan. These include:
- The Steadings, Cirencester
- Cotswold Airport, Kemble
- Royal Agricultural University Innovation Village, Cirencester
Green Economic Growth Strategy
In December 2020 Cotswold District Council adopted a Green Economic Growth Strategy as part of our commitment to supporting business and growing the local economy in a sustainable way.
The strategy was updated and a refreshed version adopted by the Council’s Cabinet in March 2025.
Please click on the link below to view the refreshed strategy:
Cotswold Green Economic Strategy 2025 - pdf - 12.05 Mb
The document aims to build on the success of the strategy adopted in December 2020 and in many ways is a continuation of that plan.
To view the original 2020 strategy document, click on the link below: