Residents living in and around the Laburnum Avenue Recreational Area in Cannock have had the opportunity to design their new play area and provide ideas for wider site improvements as part of the first stage of consultation.  

Several community engagement sessions were held last month which took place on site and in local primary schools. Children and the local community took part in a Planning for Real exercise whereby they had the opportunity to spend £130,000 and design their own play area. 

Families and children are being invited to become ‘virtual testers’ to help develop a new Augmented Reality (AR) Trail to help protect Cannock Chase. 

The Community Testing Day will be held on Saturday 20 May at Marquis Drive Visitor’s Centre on Cannock Chase and will provide an opportunity for people to test a new virtual trail and collect the new Chase Creatures. 

The Chase Creatures Trail is a short route around Marquis Drive where people will meet some friendly characters. Each Chase Creature represents one of the messages in the Cannock Chase Code.

Cannock Chase Council has collaborated with South Staffordshire College to create a work experience programme for students.



The students who are studying carpentry, plumbing, electrics and bricklaying at South Staffordshire College are teaming up with the Housing Maintenance team and Property Services team at the Council, to get regular work experience to enable them to pass their course.

The Local Government Boundary Commission for England has made its final recommendations for Cannock Chase District. This would see the number of wards reduced from the current 41 to 36 (therefore 12 wards in future with 3 councillors per ward) and all wards seeing changes to their geographocal boundaries with the exception of Norton Canes Ward.

Subject to parliamentary approval, the changes will come into place commencing with the May 2024 local elections.

It will mean that all 36 seats (from 12 wards) will be up for election in May 2024.