During National Allotment Week last month, St Barbara’s House, sheltered housing scheme, announced the winners of their annual potato growing competition.

Each tenants had their own pot to grow their potatos, they paid a pound each week and the person with the heaviest crop of potatos was the winner.

To help with the competition Wolseley Garden Centre donated the compost for them to grow the potatos in and Jack Paterson their Plant Manager and Team Member, Clare Wood, came along to judge the competition and weigh the potatos.

We are asking residents to ensure that postal votes for the Hednesford North by-election are returned in good time due to the Royal Mail strikes.  One of the strikes falls on the day of the election, 8 September, so we won’t receive any post that day.

Voters can also hand their postal vote in on election day at one of the polling stations or they can bring it to the Civic Offices before 10pm.  The polling stations are:

Cannock Chase Council’s Cabinet have agreed to adopt the refreshed Economic Prosperity Strategy, which was presented at their meeting last night.

The Council published its Economic Prosperity Strategy for 2020-2030 in January 2020.  However, due to economic changes, and the fact that the Council has refreshed its Corporate Plan, it was felt necessary to update the Economic Prosperity Strategy.  

Cabinet heard at their meeting yesterday, that air quality has improved sufficiently, that two of the Air Quality Management Areas (AQMA’s) could be revoked.

The Council has been monitoring air quality in three hotspots since 2014.  The hotspots are at the following locations:

•    A5 Watling Street in Bridgtown

•    A5 Watling Street (Churchbridge and the Turf Island)

•    A5190 Cannock Road, Heath Hayes (Five Ways Island)

Cannock Chase Council’s Cabinet have agreed to gift seven commemorative legacy beacons to recipients in previously agreed Welcome Back Funded high street, town centres locations across the District.

Cannock Chase Council’s Cabinet have agreed the pre-submission document for the Cannock Chase Local Plan 2018-2039: Regulation 19 Consultation.

The regulation 19 report is the next stage of the review of the Cannock Chase Local Plan and is the last stage until it is formally submitted.

The Local Plan looks at future development and address the needs of the District, such as housing and employment land.  It also identifies where development should take place and where is should be restricted.

Cannock Chase Council’s Cabinet have agreed to a £110k scheme to replace the toilet facilities at Elmore Park in Rugeley.



This decision follows Cabinet agreeing to a feasibility study in January 2020, to assess the costs and practicalities to improve the toilets.  There was also community and local Councillor concerns being expressed in relation to the poor condition of the existing toilets.  

Local businesses that did not qualify for rate relief funded by the Government to help them get through the COVID-19 pandemic are being invited to apply for new rate relief support as part of a further allocation of money received by Cannock Chase Council from the Government.

The funding, available now, is from the Government’s COVID-19 Additional Relief Fund known as CARF. 

Space 2022 is now underway and continues until 26 August.  Activities are available to view online, with more being added daily.

 

The Space summer programme brings together public, voluntary and private sector organisations to provide enjoyable positive activities for young people that increase their skills, improve their health and wellbeing and create opportunities, while also aiming to reduce levels of anti-social behaviour during the school summer holidays.