Strategic Leadership and Corporate Services

Leader;  and  Cabinet Member for Corporate Services

Community, Leisure Services and Environment

Cabinet Member for Community and Leisure Services; &

Cabinet Member for Environment

·       Reviewing performance and ensuring appropriate action is identified and executed to remedy performance issues

·       Asset Management

·       Communications

·       Human Resources

·       Business Transformation and the Corporate Improvement Programme

·       Equalities

·       Democratic services

·       Scrutinising standards of governance and conduct are achieved throughout the business of the Council

·       Customer service

·       Corporate finance including regular budget monitoring

·       Information Technology including scrutiny of the shared service

·       Council Tax and Housing Benefit including the Revenues and Benefits Shared Service

·       Mid Kent Improvement Partnership

·       Democratic Services including electoral services and member services

·       Procurement, Property Services and Facilities Management

·         Housing

·         Community Development

·         Community Safety  (To act as the Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership OSC twice a year)

·         Safety In Action

·         Voluntary and Community Sectors

·         Health

·         Parks, open spaces and allotments including grounds maintenance

·         Leisure activities including sporting and recreational based activities and including services provided via the Maidstone Leisure Centre

·         Community engagement

·         Allocation and monitoring of grants

·         Air Quality

·         Contaminated Land

·         Water

·         Climate change

·         Licensing

·         Carbon Management

·         Local Biodiversity

·         Waste minimisation, recycling and collection

·         Cleansing services

·         Environmental Health services

·         Bereavement i.e. services provided from the cemetery and crematorium

·         Capital projects and programmes relevant to the portfolio

·         Cobtree Golf Course

·         Climate Change

Planning, Transport and Development

Cabinet Member for Planning, Transport and Development

Economic and Commercial  Development

Cabinet Member for Economic and Commercial Development

·       The Council’s contribution to securing sustainable construction with respect to development in the borough.

·       Spatial planning including the Local Development Framework and other spatial planning documents including Development Plan Documents, Development Management policies and development briefs

·       Transport and Infrastructure (including Highways, Parking, Park and Ride and Public Transport)

·       Development Management including planning enforcement and land charges

·       Landscape and andsport and Infrastuctureule/goliciesior to them being considered for formal approval at the next meeting binet Member(s) inviConservation

·       Building Control

·       Economic Development and Regeneration

·       Commercial Services Development

·       The Visitor Economy including the Hazlitt Arts Centre, Maidstone museums, tourism, the Kent Conference Bureau and Maidstone market.

·       Capital projects and programmes relevant to the portfolio including regeneration and public realm improvement schemes

·       Events and venues