Английская Википедия:Cannock Chase District

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Cannock Chase is a local government district in Staffordshire, England. It is named after and covers a large part of Cannock Chase, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The council is based in the town of Cannock. The district also contains the towns of Hednesford and Rugeley, as well as a number of villages and surrounding rural areas.

The district borders South Staffordshire to the west, the Borough of Stafford to the north, Lichfield District to the east, and the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall to the south.

History

The district was created on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, covering two former districts plus a single parish from a third, which were all abolished at the same time:

• Brindley Heath parish from Lichfield Rural District
• Cannock Urban District
• Rugeley Urban District

The new district was named Cannock Chase after the landscape and former royal forest which covers much of the area.

Governance

Cannock Chase District Council, which styles itself "Cannock Chase Council", provides district-level services. County-level services are provided by Staffordshire County Council. Much of the district is also covered by civil parishes, which form a third tier of local government.

Since 2011, Cannock Chase Council has been a member of two local enterprise partnerships, being the Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership and the Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Local Enterprise Partnership.

The council's logo is a deer, referencing the area's past as a royal hunting forest and the fact that deer are common in the area. A survey in 2022 found that the deer population was growing.

Political control

The council has been under no overall control since the 2023 election, being run by a coalition of Labour and the Greens, led by Labour councillor Tony Johnson.

The first elections to the council were held in 1973, initially operating as a shadow authority alongside the outgoing authorities before coming into its powers on 1 April 1974. Political control of the council since 1974 has been as follows:

Party in control		Years
Шаблон:Party name with colour	1974–1982
Шаблон:Party name with colour	1982–1987
Шаблон:Party name with colour	1987–2003
Шаблон:Party name with colour	2003–2012
Шаблон:Party name with colour	2012–2019
Шаблон:Party name with colour	2019–2021
Шаблон:Party name with colour	2021–2023
Шаблон:Party name with colour	2023–present

Leadership

The leaders of the council since 2005 have been:

Councillor	Party		From	To
Neil Stanley	Шаблон:Party name with colour	pre-2005	8 May 2011
George Adamson	Шаблон:Party name with colour	25 May 2011	19 May 2021
Olivia Lyons	Шаблон:Party name with colour	19 May 2021	24 May 2023
Tony Johnson	Шаблон:Party name with colour	24 May 2023

Composition

Following the 2023 election and a subsequent change of allegiance in September 2023, the composition of the council was:

Party		Councillors
Шаблон:Party name with colour	18
Шаблон:Party name with colour	18
Шаблон:Party name with colour	5
Total		41

The next election is due in 2024.

Elections

Шаблон:Also Since the last boundary changes in 2002 the council has comprised 41 councillors representing 15 wards, with each ward electing two or three councillors. Elections are held three years out of every four, with roughly a third of the council elected each time for a four-year term of office. Staffordshire County Council elections are held in the fourth year of the cycle when there are no district council elections. New ward boundaries have been drawn up to take effect from the 2024 election, reducing the number of councillors to 36.

The district covers the same area as the Cannock Chase (UK Parliament constituency). Until the 2010 general election the constituency also included the adjacent village of Huntington in South Staffordshire. From 2010 onwards the constituency has exactly the same boundaries as the district.

Premises

The council is based at the Civic Centre on Beecroft Road in Cannock. The building was purpose-built for the council between 1978 and 1981.

Demography

According to data from the 2011 United Kingdom census, Cannock Chase has a population of 100,600, with 49,500 males and 51,100 females. 62.5% of the population is between the ages of 16–64, of which 88.7% is economically active, 11.2% above the West Midlands regional average.

Towns and parishes

Much of the district is covered by eight civil parishes. The exception is certain parts of Cannock, which are unparished. The parish councils for Hednesford and Rugeley have declared their parishes to be towns, allowing them to take the style "town council".

When the district was created in 1974 it only contained one parish, being Brindley Heath; the former Rugeley Urban District and Cannock Urban District were both unparished. In 1988 two parishes called Rugeley and Brereton were created covering the former Rugeley Urban District, and four parishes called Bridgtown, Cannock Wood, Heath Hayes and Wimblebury, and Norton Canes were created covering parts of the former Cannock Urban District. The parish of Hednesford was subsequently created in 2000 from another part of the former Cannock Urban District.

The parishes are: Шаблон:Div col

• Brereton and Ravenhill
• Bridgtown
• Brindley Heath
• Cannock Wood
• Heath Hayes and Wimblebury
• Hednesford (town)
• Norton Canes
• Rugeley (town)

Other areas and settlements include: Шаблон:Div col

• Chadsmoor
• Church Hill
• Hawks Green
• Hazelslade
• Littleworth
• Little Wyrley
• North Lanes
• Prospect Village
• Pye Green
• Rawnsley
• Slitting Mill

Further reading

• Шаблон:Cite journal