 It includes a fish and chip shop, newsagent, Launderette and bookmaker.The pub opposite (at the time "Cotterills Bar", named after the manager of Cheltenham Town Football Club and boldly decorated in the club's colours, previously "The Golden Miller") was demolished in 2004 and is now a foreign exchange shared house owned by Gloucestershire College

Rowanfield falls within the Cheltenham parliamentary constituency and the local council ward of "Rowanfield and St Marks".It is within the South West England European Parliament constituency.