There will be a By-Election for one seat on Bridgtown Parish council on Thursday 21 October 2021. The Notice appears below.

At Council last night four former councillors of Cannock Chase Council were presented with certificates to mark their appointment as Aldermen and Alderwomen of the District, in recognition of their service to the Council and the wider community. They received their certificates from the Chairman of the Council, Councillor Doug Smith.

Those newly appointed to this honour are Gordon Alcott (shown top left), Zaphne Stretton MBE (top right), Diane Todd (bottom left) and Patricia Ansell (bottom right). Their names will now be inscribed on an Honours Board in the Civic Suite.

A message on Facebook that led to a man from Wednesbury offering his `services` to remove waste was not `liked` in the way he hoped it would be after he was prosecuted by Cannock Chase Council and ended up with a criminal conviction.

Rugeley’s currently closed boardwalk, and bridges at Anglesey nature reserve in Hednesford and at Rawnsley Woods, are to be replaced by the Council following a review of all boardwalks and bridges in the District. It follows the completion of a new Corporate Maintenance Plan agreed by Cabinet.

Repair work to the Rugeley Boardwalk and the two bridges will begin during the current financial year with all the work expected to be completed in 2022/23.

Cannock Chase Council’s Portfolio Holder for Health and Wellbeing, Councillor Val Jones, and the Leader of the Council, Councillor Olivia Lyons, have jointly written to the Chief Executive of The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust to raise concerns that Cannock Chase Hospital’s Minor Injuries Unit remains closed.

The Trust decided to close the unit temporarily in order to transfer its staff to other critical areas of the hospital in response to COVID-19 pressures. 

Cannock Chase Council is trialing new smart jumbo bins in three locations across the District to reduce littering.

The jumbo bins have been positioned in high volume areas that have experienced overflowing in past due to the frequency of them being emptied. These areas are Mount Road in Etching Hill, Bideford Way on the corner of Banbury Drive, Cannock outside the shops and Sharon Way, Hednesford, also outside the shops.

The jumbo bins will hold 240 litres of rubbish in comparison to a normal litter bin which only holds 112 litres.

Cannock Chase Council’s Deputy Leader, Councillor Bryan Jones, welcomed the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government Robert Jenrick to Cannock yesterday afternoon (Friday) during a visit to the town to see new homes being built.

Seven more local authorities have joined the Staffordshire Counter Fraud Partnership, with the aim of keeping public money out of the hands of fraudsters.

Cabinet members at Cannock Chase Council plan to allocate funding towards the Commonwealth Games’ mountain biking event taking place at Cannock Chase Forest next summer.

This follows the allocation of £50,000 last year towards the new blue graded mountain bike trail currently under construction by Forestry England at Birches Valley that will form part of the Games’ course.

At its meeting this Thursday (10 June), the Cabinet is looking to allocate £50,000 of funding made available in September 2020.

The town of Rugeley has bid farewell to its four, 117m high concrete cooling towers that have dominated the skyline for decades, after a controlled collapse demolition event on Sunday 6 June. Members of the community watched the livestreamed event to remove the last major component of Rugeley B Power Station following the plant’s closure in 2016.