A CONSULTATION has been launched into plans to designate the area covering Stow and the Swells parishes as a neighborhood area.

The parish of Stow has been a neighbourhood area since 2012, but consultation has since identified a desire to include the Swells within the parish’s Neighbourhood Plan, a document setting out a vision for the future of the area created by the people who live there.

Comments on the proposal can be made via www.cotswold.gov.uk until Friday, February 27.