Twelve tips to a safer Christmas

Twelve tips to a safer Christmas

Published: Friday, 10th December 2021

The Chase Community Safety Partnership is helping residents stay safe again this Christmas with the relaunch of its campaign ’Twelve days to a safer Christmas’.

The festive season can be a very busy time during which it’s easy to take your eye off the ball when it comes to crime prevention. The campaign will run from 13 December until 24 December and will remind people how to keep safe and within the law during the lead up to the Christmas.

Staffordshire Councils agree collaboration programme and County Deal proposals

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Published: Wednesday, 8th December 2021

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.


Arrests made for fly tipping

Councillor Justin Johnson

Published: Tuesday, 7th December 2021

Two people from Walsall have been arrested in connection with fly tipping offences in Cannock Chase.  The pair were linked to waste that was fly tipped in Norton Canes in May 2020 and following an investigation by environmental health officers, both were summonsed to appear before Magistrates Court in March 2021.  After they failed to appear, warrants were i


Come along and plant a tree!

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Published: Wednesday, 1st December 2021

The community of Norton Canes are being invited to come along and plant a tree as part of the improvement works to the Cema - Chapel Street Park in Norton Canes.

Council target cold rented homes

Eco

Published: Wednesday, 1st December 2021

Cannock Chase Council have received funding to help residents in the District, who are living in cold, inefficient rented properties.

Mass tree planting to create urban woodland helps tackle climate change

Volunteers from Amey planting trees

Published: Tuesday, 30th November 2021

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.

Rugeley hairdresser fined £15k for lockdown offence

Councillor Val Jones

Published: Tuesday, 30th November 2021

A mobile hairdresser has been prosecuted for breaching Covid restrictions during the last national lockdown.  On 20 January 2021, Nicola Watts left her home in Rishworth Avenue in Rugeley and drove to the home of another person where she carried out the services of a hairdresser.

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