The Chairman

Councillor Ian Plant is the 2024/2025 Chairman for Staffordshire Moorlands.

Below is a short biography from Councillor Plant.

My first career opportunity came as an apprentice at The Cheadle and Tean Times followed by The Leek Post and Times. Whilst doing this work I developed an interest in green keeping so started to help the groundsmen at the local cricket club in Cheadle. This led to me starting my own business as a groundsman, a job which I still do to this day.

Never being shy of hard work, I'm a member of RAOB and also involved in organising events which take place in my town including Cheadle in Bloom, Team Cheadle events, Party in the Park and more recently Cheadle Arts Festival.

I was elected on to Cheadle Town Council in 2011, and Staffordshire Moorlands District Council in 2019 and have served as Chairman and Vice-Chairman of various committees during this time. I have also proudly carried out the role of Mayor on 3 separate occasions. All of which I could not do without the support of my family, close friends and fellow Councillors.

The first charity I have chosen to support during my term is Moorlands Home Link. This charity has touched a lot of people in the Moorlands, with many of us knowing someone who has received their services in one way or another. The second charity I have chosen is Prostate Cancer UK; a charity very close to my heart whose top priority is funding research to stop prostate cancer, and find better treatments and tests that can spot fast-growing cancers early.

I hope you will support me through my year as Chairman of Staffordshire Moorlands District Council and help raise funds for both charities.

Both Kath and I look forward to being Ambassadors for and representing Staffordshire Moorlands in the forthcoming year.