Residents can now subscribe to Cannock Chase Council’s garden waste service. The cost is £38.50 per brown bin collected. The subscription covers the period 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2024.  

The new subscription scheme was announced back in September and followed a decision in March, by the previous administration, to introduce charging as a way of helping to meet a shortfall in the Council’s budget. Cannock Chase Council becomes one of the last councils in Staffordshire to introduce garden waste charging.

Amanda Frisby, publican of The Cabin pub in Rugeley, Staffordshire has been ordered to pay a total of £766 after being found smoking in the bar - and allowing customers to smoke on the premises.

As part of an unrelated investigation, police officers viewed CCTV evidence of Frisby and others smoking at the pub, outside normal opening hours, and passed on the evidence to Cannock Chase Council, where the Environmental Health Service is responsible for enforcing smokefree legislation.

A Closure Order has been granted for a Cannock Chase Council property following ongoing reports of anti-social behaviour and drug use from the address.

Staffordshire Police, working in partnership with Cannock Chase Council’s Housing, Community Safety and Legal teams, has secured a three-month closure for an address on Avon Road in Cannock.

Cannock Chase Council has invoked its Severe Weather Emergency Protocol (SWEP) following two consecutive days/nights where the temperature has been recorded at 0 degrees centigrade or below. 
SWEP will see continued attempts by officers from the Council’s Housing Options team and outreach workers from its commissioned rough sleeper service, Spring Housing, to engage with those most vulnerable within the community. The Council will offer and arrange off street accommodation for the duration of this severe weather period.

Cannock Chase Council’s ambitious plans to regenerate a key part of Cannock town centre have moved a step forward today (Wednesday 15 November) after councillors on the Planning Control Committee agreed to give outline planning permission.

The scheme to create a leisure and cultural hub based around the Prince of Wales Theatre and Church Street attracted £20m of Levelling Up Fund money from Government two years ago. In all, the scheme affects land bounded by Ringway, Church Street and Market Hall Street.

Pupils from St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School in Hednesford have been supporting Parliament Week (6-12 November) by attending a workshop about the Second World War (WW2) and debating its consequences at the fitting venue of Hednesford War Memorial.

The event was able to take place following a successful application made by The Friends of Hednesford Park to the Speakers Fund, managed by the UK’s Parliament.