The Forest of Dean was the hardest hit with 16cm (6ins) falling throughout the day.
David Warburton, from the agency, said they were "crucial projects" for the Forest of Dean.
Forest of Dean Council leader Patrick Molyneaux said "some serious development" was to take place.
He was arrested in September after two 30-litre drums of acid were stolen in the Forest of Dean.
But sitting alongside the Pontypridd MP was Mark Harper, the immigration minister whose Forest of Dean constituency neighbours Wales.
All waste and recycling collections due on Friday in the Forest of Dean, the Cotswolds and Stroud were cancelled.
The five Forest of Dean communities are Cinderford, Coleford, Drybrook, Longhope and Lydbrook.
The scheme is a joint venture between Forest of Dean District Council and the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA).
To have an active cull area in the Forest of Dean I think can only do damage to its reputation.
The Tindle Group, which produces two newspapers in the Forest of Dean, has now launched a weekly newspaper for Gloucester.
BBC: Gloucester and Forest of Dean newspaper 'turf war erupts'
Plans to regenerate a former deep mine in the Forest of Dean have been given the go-ahead, but with conditions.
Forest of Dean District Council approved planning permission for the new 4, 645 sq m store on Steam Mills Road last January.
People in the Forest of Dean will be the first to benefit from the multi-million pound 'Fastershire' project which has begun.
Many schools were closed in the Forest of Dean and the Cotswolds.
Work to repair and paint the Bigsweir bridge near St Briavels in The Forest of Dean is due to last until March.
The Forest of Dean markets itself on being this bucolic place where everyone comes to walk and cycle, spot wildlife, and photograph wildlife.
Tewkesbury Borough Council and the Forest of Dean District Council have already voted to reject the proposal to cull badgers on council land.
We have an excellent working relationship with the local head of the Forestry Commission who has his office in the Forest of Dean.
But Debbie Lear who was visiting for the day from the Forest of Dean agreed with the calmer pace of life offered in the city.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Wales | South East Wales | City's slow pace of life revealed
It says it is "hitting back" after Local World, which owns the Gloucester Citizen, last week launched an edition circulating in the Forest of Dean.
BBC: Gloucester and Forest of Dean newspaper 'turf war erupts'
An 18-year-old man from the Forest of Dean has pleaded guilty to possessing explosive materials and arson on a railway carriage at a court hearing.
Workers facing redundancy in the Forest of Dean fear plans for a new supermarket, which would bring 200 jobs to the area, will be thrown out.
When Joanne was nine, the family moved a little farther west, to the edge of the Forest of Dean, a more rural and less prosperous district.
Leader of the Conservative-controlled Forest of Dean District Council, Patrick Molyneux, said officers were looking through the planning report and before making a decision on how to proceed.
Conservative MP for the Forest of Dean Mark Harper is in the process of setting up a meeting in Parliament to discuss the issue with Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
Its Forest edition of The Citizen was first published last Wednesday and is set to be distributed to the Forest of Dean and Newent on the same day every week.
BBC: Gloucester and Forest of Dean newspaper 'turf war erupts'
Mark Harper, Conservative MP for the Forest of Dean, has previously said he was "disappointed" that Mr Surl was "already thinking about breaking his manifesto pledge to not raise local taxes".
BBC: PCC proposes 2% policing tax increase for Gloucestershire
The new arrangements will begin across the county in April 2013, with the exception of Gloucester and the Forest of Dean which will adopt the new scheme in September 2014 subject to further discussions.
By contrast, in the short term it reckons that the votes of a few conservationists and well-to-do owners of second homes weigh lightly in the balance against those who have to make a living out in constituencies such as Stroud and the Forest of Dean.
"We have seen students that have been involved in bullying behavior or alcohol or drugs, " said Martha Blevins Allman, dean of admissions at Wake Forest University.
应用推荐