The Mayor of East Staffordshire, Cllr Syed Hussain, flew the Commonwealth National Flag at Burton Town Hall on Monday 11th March at 11:00am to mark Commonwealth Day 2024.

Two East Staffordshire entries are celebrating with the news they’ve reached the 2024 RHS Britain in Bloom finals.

East Staffordshire Borough Council has launched a public consultation with aim of understanding how residents and visitors to the Borough use the Council’s car parks, running from Friday 1st March 2024 for 8 weeks.

East Staffordshire Borough Council’s innovative Ward Enhancement Programme Panel (WEP) has now met three times and reviewed its very successful start since May 2023. One of the issues that stands out is the need for children's play spaces to be improved. This is a borough-wide problem.

At its meeting of Full Council on Monday 19th February 2024, East Staffordshire Councillors will discuss a proposal to purchase the Maltings Precinct in Uttoxeter in order to enable the regeneration of the wider Maltings site.

The Selective Licensing team at East Staffordshire Borough Council have successfully won an appeal to enforce a Financial Penalty Notice that was served on a Landlord who let out a privately rented property on Queen Street, Burton without a licence in place.  

More than 40 of Staffordshire’s best tourism and hospitality businesses will go head-to-head at the prestigious Enjoy Staffordshire Tourism & Good Food Awards 2024. Included in the finalists are 8 East Staffordshire nominees, who are shortlisted for 13 awards. 

Following the resignation of the previous Chair last October, the Council has been working with the Town Deal Board and its Vice-Chair, John McKiernan, to put in place an appropriate procedure to recruit a new permanent Town Deal Board Chair for the remainder of the Towns Fund programme period.

In support of the ‘Tackle The Tippers’ campaign against fly tipping, officers from East Staffordshire Borough Council’s Community and Civil Enforcement and Enforcement Teams joined forces to undertake an intelligence-based initiative on the 3rd January 2024 in the Anglesey Ward of Burton upon Tre

East Staffordshire Borough Council is delighted to confirm a final period of consultation over the future of the Maltings in Uttoxeter will take place in the summer.