A Gloucestershire council candidate is proposing the “radical” plan for the “Forest of Dean annexation of Ross-on-Wye” in a bid to avoid the need to build a new town near Gloucester.

The recent trend among some politicians of talking about annexing their neighbour’s land has surfaced in the run-up to this year’s Gloucestershire County Council elections.

Former Forest of Dean District Councillor Thom Forester is proposing the annexation of nearby Herefordshire market town – which needs to find sites for another 3,000 homes over the next 20 years.

Meanwhile, the Forest District needs to find land to build another 5,400 by 2041.

The Independent candidate for Drybrook and Lydbrook says in his election propaganda leaflet........

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