Cannock Chase Council is thanking the people of Cannock Chase for continuing to recycle as part of Recycle Now’s 17th annual Recycle week.

Despite all that has happened this year with the COVID pandemic, new stats show we care more about the environment than ever before. Statistics released by Recycle Now show that through lockdown the UK has become even more environmentally aware, with nearly 9 in 10 households saying they ‘regularly recycle’. 

Cannock Chase Council’s Cabinet has approved a proposal from Forestry England to become a funding partner for a Commonwealth Games Legacy Project.

Cannock Chase Forest will be one of the venues for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games used for mountain biking events. Its success will reply upon a high quality sustainable trail infrastructure being delivered.

Cannock Chase Council has pledged its support for this year`s Great British September Clean, run by environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy.

The campaign which runs from 11 September until 27 September will see up to half a million people taking action to clean streets, parks and beaches across the country.

The Council`s Street Cleansing team is encouraging local residents and community groups across Cannock Chase District to get involved.

A fly-tipper apprehended in Cannock Chase District in August is feeling rather dejected after the Ford Transit Van he was using to illegally discard waste was well and truly crushed this week at a vehicle crushing site.

CANNOCK CHASE DISTRICT COUNCIL

NOTICE OF SEIZURE

Section 34B Environmental Protection Act 1990

Last Friday a joint operation was carried out between the Council’s Licensing & Environmental Health Teams, the Police and the Security Industry Authority (SIA).

The operation included visiting 22 licensed premises, unannounced in Rugeley, Cannock and Hednesford town centres and surrounding areas to check that these businesses were complying with the COVID-19 guidance on social distancing and test and trace etc.

Repair works of the swimming pool at Rugeley Leisure Centre will be completed early 2021.

Inspiring healthy lifestyles (IHL) who manage the swimming pool on behalf of the Council identified problems with the tiling in the pool, which was drained during lockdown, to determine the extent of the issue and carry out assessments on the pool.

Tests have been conducted on the pool, pipelines and water tanks over the last few weeks to pinpoint the potential water leak and reasons behind failed tiling.

Cannock Chase Council is delighted to announce that the Tuesday street market in Cannock Town Centre will return on Tuesday 1 September.

E G Skett & Co, the street market operator trialled a Tuesday street market last year.  The success of this market means that Cannock’s regular street market will now take place on Tuesdays and Fridays from 9am until 4pm.

Cannock Chase Council will be placing a new recycling sticker on all of the blue recycling bins in the District over the next few weeks.

The purpose of this recycling campaign is to make it clearer to residents what items can be recycled and put in their blue bin. Only household items identified on the sticker can be put in the blue recycling bin.  If blue bins are found to contain any other items they will tagged and not emptied.

Residents and workers in Cannock are being urged to book a COVID-19 test if they have symptoms of the virus, after a new testing site opens in the town tomorrow. (Saturday 22 August).

Anyone with coronavirus symptoms, however mild, can get a free swab test that takes less than a minute. Tests should be booked or ordered as soon as symptoms begin at www.nhs.uk/coronavirus  or by calling 119 and you can expect your result the next day.