Upcoming Events
16.01.2025
Cannock District Cabinet meeting. Public can attend as observers only.
22.01.2025
Cannock District Council Meeting. Questions can be submitted to the council 5 days before. If you submit a question you are able to ask a follow-on question in the meeting.
27.01.2025
The Responsible Council Scrutiny Committee will consider the findings of the consultation at its meeting on 27 January and will feed any comments they have into the Cabinet meeting.
30.01.2025
Cannock District Council Cabinet Meeting. The Cabinet will consider the feedback from the consultation in more depth at it’s meeting on 30 January when it will decide what to include in the budget to be recommended to Council. Council will meet on 12 February to make a final decision on whether the Museum and Theatre will close.
12.02.2025
Cannock District Council Meeting. Council will meet on 12 February to make a final decision on whether the Museum and Theatre will close.
Past Events
31.12.2024
Prince of Wales and Museum of Cannock Chase Committee met.
28.12.2024
Prince of Wales and Museum of Cannock Chase Committee met.
19.12.2024
The Stock Condition Survey and detials of running cost released. Link to CCDC site with documents here
15.12.2024
Josh Newbury MP held a public meeting at Cannock College.
29.11.2024
The public consultation was opened by Cannock Chase District Council.
28.11.2024
6pm a CCDC Cabinet meeting at the Civic Centre was held. Lots of people gathered before the start of the meeting to show their support against the proposed closures.
Earlier in the day there had been a show of support outside the theatre and our plight reached local news outlets!
Children from Westhill Primary School were also involved and wrote letters to the local councillors
27.11.2024
A petition called ‘Save The Museum of Cannock Chase – protect our mining heritage’ was set up on change.org. Again this quickly gained momentum achieving over 2,300 signatures and counting!
A community meeting was held with interested parties at Cannock Conservative Club. Representatives from Cannock Chase District Council, Inspiring Healthy Lifestyles, Cannock Chase Arts Council, and a range of arts groups were present. Minutes / notes of this meeting can be found here.
26.11.2024
A petition called ‘Save the Prince of Wales Theatre, Cannock’ was set up on Change.org. This quickly gained momentum achieving over 19,000 signatures and counting!
The ‘Save Cannock Chase Heritage & Culture’ and the ‘Save the Prince of Wales Theatre’ Facebook pages / groups were created.
25.11.2024
The public became aware the Cannock Chase District Council are planning to close both the Prince of Wales Theatre and the Museum of Cannock Chase.
As news broke there was an instant outcry on social media with many sharing the CCDC’s Full Papers of the Cabinet meeting for 28/11/24. These can be found here