The Corporate Management Team
The council’s operations are structured under the Chief Executive and three Directorates with shared responsibilities. The main responsibilities of the Chief Executive and each Directorate are as follows:
Chief Executive (Head of Paid Service) | Trevor Scott
- Finance
- HR and Organisational Development
Corporate Director – Place | Chris Bending
- Planning and Environmental Services
- Climate Change, Planning Policy and Economic Development
- Environmental Health
Corporate Director – Director of Community | David Plank
- Customer, Digital and Revenue & Benefit Services
- Housing and Property Services
- Waste, Assets and Crematorium
Corporate Director – Governance and Projects | Kristina Shaw-Hamilton
- Legal, Democratic Services and Information Governance
- Strategic Projects
Under the Directorate of the Chief Executive
Laurence Woolven – Chief Financial Officer (Section 151 Officer)
- Audit and Investigations
- Strategic Finance
- Accountability and Treasury Management
- Procurement and Commissioning
Sarah Garner – Head of People and Organisational Development
- Electoral services
- Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion
- Human Resources
- Learning and Organisational Development
- Payroll
- Corporate Plan and Policy
- Public Relations
- Community Leadership
- Performance Management
Under the Directorate of Community Services are:
Liane Tew – Head of Digital, Revenues and Benefits
- ICT
- Digital Policy
- Benefits administration
- Revenues (Council Tax and Business Rates) administration
Gemma Forshaw – Head of Housing Services
- Housing Policy
- Affordable Housing
- Housing Options & Allocations
- Housing Property
- Private Housing
Chris Bone – Head of Waste and Customer Services
- Waste and Recycling Management
- Street Scene
- Emergency Planning
- Customer Services
Under the Directorate of Place:
Stacey Robins – Head of Planning & Environmental Services
- Building Control
- Conservation & Enforcement
- Development Management
- Environmental Protection
- Land Charges
Nichola Watters – Head of Planning Policy, Economy and Climate Change
- Planning Policy/Local Plans
- Economic Development, Culture, Tourism, Grants, Skills, Health, Leisure and Wellbeing
- Climate Change
Richard Parker-Harding – Head of Environmental Health (shared with Rother District Council)
- Public Health
- Licensing
- Pollution Control
Under the Directorate of Governance and Projects are:
Clare McGough Chief Legal and Governance Officer (Solicitor to the Council, Monitoring Officer and Data Protection Officer).
- Legal Services,
- Democratic Services
- Information Governance.
Assistant Head of Service (Strategic Projects) – TBC
- Commercial Strategy and New Income Generation