Executive post

Stronger Communities Portfolio

Description

 

Responsibilities:

 

·       Policing

·       Community Safety

·       Council’s responsibilities for Fire and Rescue Services

·       Street Scene Enforcement

·       Illegal Encampments

·       Private Sector Housing

·       Licensing of premises (except where delegated to Licensing Committee)

·       Hackney carriage and private hire vehicles (except where delegated to the Licensing Committee)

·       Trading Standards and Animal Welfare

·       Co-ordination of the Council's responsibilities under the Floods and Water Act

·       Civil Contingencies and Emergency Planning

·       Parking Enforcement

·       CCTV

·       Voluntary sector

·       Community Development

·       Decision making on applications for community grants, subject to existing criteria

·       Equalities

·       Cabinet Champion for equalities