High Street, Coleford in the Forest of Dean. (Image: Carmelo Garcia)

There are fears that the construction of two new towns in West Gloucestershire will lead to a "doughnut of deprivation” in the Forest of Dean .

Council chiefs are due to recommend their new strategy for the area’s new blueprint for development in the district.

The new local plan would be valid until 2045, if approved, and would set out how they intend to meet a new housing target of more than 13,000 homes during that time.

The preferred approach of the Green Party leaders in Coleford is for one or two new settlements to be built and housing and employment development to be concentrated in the main towns.

The suggested hybrid strategy would also include modest growth in larger villages and villages.

But there a

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