One Bag – Big Difference: Cannock Chase Council supports residents pledging to pick one bag of litter for charity’s Great British Spring Clean campaign

The Council is today encouraging people to pledge to do their bit to clear up the litter that blights the District during the Great British Spring Clean 2022.

Cannock Chase Council is currently preparing to issue over 41,000 payments of £150 to residential properties falling within council tax bands A to D. The £150 will not have to be paid back.

This follows the recent Government announcement to use the Council Tax system to make this one-off payment to households most likely to be affected by the current increases in energy costs.

The Council has issued guidance on how the scheme will work and how the payments are to be made.  

Cabinet members at Cannock Chase Council have listened to concerns made by residents about the plans of Hednesford Town Council to transfer the lease of the Pye Green Community Centre to the 1st Hednesford Scouts.

At its meeting this evening, Cabinet decided against allowing the town council to transfer the lease. They believe the lease should remain with the town council so the popular centre continues to provide benefit to the wider community. 

Cannock Chase Council has implemented a Public Spaces Protection Order (Alcohol Restriction Zones) across the District.

Staffordshire County Council’s Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Economy and Skills, Councillor Philip White, has been to Cannock to understand `first-hand` Cannock Chase Council’s plans to regenerate the town centre.

Cannock Chase Council is seeking views on its proposed Private Sector Housing Strategy which covers privately rented, owner-occupied and Registered Provider Housing. 

With the size of the private rented sector having seen large increases over the last 10 years as more people rent the homes they live in; a new strategy has become especially important and needed.

Nine Staffordshire councils have pledged to work closer together and pursue a County Deal with Government under its ‘Levelling Up’ agenda.

Staffordshire council leaders are pledging to work closer than ever on the economy, skills and training, climate change and improved public services, building on their effective joint working to help residents and businesses through the Covid-19 pandemic.

Just a couple of months after Cannock Chase Council announced its intention to create a new urban woodland at Bradbury Lane in Hednesford, over 3,000 native trees and shrubs have been planted to date.

This significant achievement, with the help of the Forest of Mercia CIC, has come about thanks to the combined efforts of over 15 local volunteer groups and residents living nearby who have all been busy planting trees and shrubs in the past few weeks.

Statement from Cannock Chase Council, Staffordshire County Council, Staffordshire Police, Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service, and NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent CCGs

Temporary emergency accommodation for asylum seekers in Cannock

This week a hotel in Cannock has started receiving a group of asylum seekers at the request of the Home Office. The asylum seekers are being cared for by Serco as part of an arrangement with the Home Office. 

This week’s budget announcement that Cannock Chase Council is to be allocated £20m from the Government’s Levelling Up Fund (LUF) programme has been positively received as `huge boost` to the Council’s ambitious plans to rejuvenate its Cannock town centre.