Issue - decisions

Council Reorganisation

07/06/2005 - Council Reorganisation

121/2005 The Cabinet supported the following proposals:
A service manager post of Safer Communities - Strategy be established covering Trading Standards, Emergency Planning, Community Safety Strategy and Enforcement Strategy.

A service manager post of Safer Communities - Operations be established covering Environmental Health and all the street teams, including the Community Safety Team and the Litter Enforcement Officers.

A new service manager post be established to take an overview of enforcement, located in Finance and Corporate Services.

The 3 posts set out above replace the posts of Community Safety and Wardens, Head of Environmental Health and Head of Trading Standards and Emergency Planning.

Arts be merged with Libraries, providing a further service manager saving.

Bereavement Services moves to the Social Care division.

Housing Strategy stays with Planning.

Customer First and First Point of Contact move to the Chief Executive's.

The travellers function be located with Enforcement in Finance and Corporate Services.

Development Control and Building Control be divided (the creation of this additional service manager post to be funded through a reorganisation of the teams below).
122/2005 The Cabinet endorsed the final structure, as amended by decision no. 121/2005 for implementation.