Historic Environment Strategy Archives

11 December 2025

Have your say on our Historic Environment Strategy

Have your say on Cannock Chase National Landscape’s Historic Environment Strategy – Chase past, present and future

Chase past, present and future is our first Historic Environment Strategy for the National Landscape*.

We are seeking views on the priorities that we have set out in our Consultation Draft of the Strategy to understand, enjoy and care for the area’s rich and diverse historic environment.

The historic environment is fundamental to the distinctive character, sense of place and natural beauty of Cannock Chase. As a National Landscape Partnership, we recognise that it is one of our most precious assets: shaping our cultural identity, contributing to our quality of life, and supporting the local economy.

‘Chase Past, Present and Future’ has been prepared to complement and elaborate the over-arching policies set out in our latest statutory AONB Management Plan 2025-2030. Building on the seminal ‘Chase Through Time’ project and subsequent studies carried out over the last decade, this strategy sets out a framework for UNDERSTANDING, ENJOYING and CARING for the historic environment of Cannock Chase. It includes an ambitious portfolio of projects which we will take forward with our partners and the communities to deliver tangible and lasting
benefits for the historic environment and local people.

In these challenging times, we will have to be resourceful and collaborative in pursuit of new funding and opportunities to ensure that the historic environment is protected for the future.

We will take into account all comments gathered from responses to our questionnaire in producing the final version of the Strategy.

Please share the link to the survey if you can, so we can gather as many views as possible. The deadline for responses will be 5pm on Friday 30th January 2026.

All information that you provide will be anonymous and confidential; no personal data will be shared with other parties.

*National Landscape is the new name for Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

Links to the Strategy and survey are below:

Historic Environment Strategy Consultation Draft

Have your say here on the Historic Environment Strategy Draft