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# Decision to push ahead with monthly Burntwood market hailed as “excellent news” by local councillor
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/decision-to-push-ahead-with-monthly-burntwood-market-hailed-as-excellent-news-by-local-councillor/
- Published: 2021-11-22T09:50:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-11-23T16:36:55.000Z
- Description: The decision to push ahead with a regular market in Burntwood has been hailed as “excellent news” by a local councillor.
- Author: Lichfield Live
- Tags: Burntwood, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 19:15, News

The decision to push ahead with a regular market in Burntwood has been hailed as “excellent news” by a local councillor.

![The new market in Burntwood. Picture: Burntwood Town Council](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e3/90/e390c3da-0866-4d2a-8ffe-ca4999d7ce1c/content/images/lichfieldlive-co-uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/e8vhqtiwuaais7l.jpg)

The new market in Burntwood. Picture: Burntwood Town Council

Burntwood Town Council backed plans to push ahead with a monthly Sankey’s Corner market following two pilot events earlier this year.

Cllr Darren Ennis, deputy leader of the council, said there had been a positive response to the proposals.

> “It is excellent news that councillors voted 100% in favour of the markets – this will allow Burntwood to host a monthly producers’ market from spring next year.  
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> “The pilots were received very positively by the public.  
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> “To be able to get to this point, we worked hard with Lichfield City Council, Lichfield District Council and Staffordshire County Council and got their full support to make it happen.”  
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> Cllr Darren Ennis, Burntwood Town Council

Cllr Ennis said the decision by Burntwood Town Council to increase council tax would help fund such initiatives as the market.

![Cllr Darren Ennis](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e3/90/e390c3da-0866-4d2a-8ffe-ca4999d7ce1c/content/images/lichfieldlive-co-uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/bigpic-15.jpg)

Cllr Darren Ennis

> “As people will understand, these markets are not free to organise and lots goes on behind the scenes.  
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> “The council also agreed to a small increase of 3p a week to Burntwood Town Council’s precept. Because of this, it has given us the additional funds to make sure this happens and continues.  
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> “It’s very exciting to get something amazing like this in Burntwood and it’s here to stay.”  
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> Cllr Darren Ennis, Burntwood Town Council

The council said talks were taking place with operator Bert and Gerts, who ran the two pilot markets, in a bid to agree a new longer term agreement.