diff --git a/CHANGELOG.txt b/CHANGELOG.txt
index 9e2ec487e8..1ed1b905fd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.txt
+++ b/CHANGELOG.txt
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ Changelog
  * Added a basic Dockerfile to the project template (Tom Dyson)
  * StreamField blocks now allow custom `get_template` methods for overriding templates in instances (Christopher Bledsoe)
  * Simplified edit handler API (Florent Osmont, Bertrand Bordage)
+ * Made 'add/change/delete collection' permissions configurable from the group edit page (Matt Westcott)
  * Fix: Do not remove stopwords when generating slugs from non-ASCII titles, to avoid issues with incorrect word boundaries (Sævar Öfjörð Magnússon)
  * Fix: The PostgreSQL search backend now preserves ordering of the `QuerySet` when searching with `order_by_relevance=False` (Bertrand Bordage)
  * Fix: Using `modeladmin_register` as a decorator no longer replaces the decorated class with `None` (Tim Heap)
diff --git a/docs/releases/2.0.rst b/docs/releases/2.0.rst
index 14deaed9c9..ff635497b4 100644
--- a/docs/releases/2.0.rst
+++ b/docs/releases/2.0.rst
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ Other features
  * Added a basic Dockerfile to the project template (Tom Dyson)
  * StreamField blocks now allow custom ``get_template`` methods for overriding templates in instances (Christopher Bledsoe)
  * Simplified edit handler API (Florent Osmont, Bertrand Bordage)
+ * Made 'add/change/delete collection' permissions configurable from the group edit page (Matt Westcott)
 
 
 Bug fixes
diff --git a/wagtail/core/wagtail_hooks.py b/wagtail/core/wagtail_hooks.py
index 5590aa304e..1ec45c4722 100644
--- a/wagtail/core/wagtail_hooks.py
+++ b/wagtail/core/wagtail_hooks.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 from django.conf import settings
+from django.contrib.auth.models import Permission
 from django.contrib.auth.views import redirect_to_login
 from django.urls import reverse
 
@@ -50,3 +51,11 @@ def register_core_features(features):
     features.default_features.append('ol')
 
     features.default_features.append('ul')
+
+
+@hooks.register('register_permissions')
+def register_collection_permissions():
+    return Permission.objects.filter(
+        content_type__app_label='wagtailcore',
+        codename__in=['add_collection', 'change_collection', 'delete_collection']
+    )