Executive post

Service Portfolio 

Directorate and Service areas the Cabinet Member is responsible for and where the Corporate Director responsible and Officers within will report directly to: 

Specific Delegations

Housing

1. In conjunction with the Leader of the Council, to be responsible for overseeing and reporting to Cabinet on all aspects of the Housing Development Programme, social housing grants and other related external grants.
2. To approve housing management arrangements and to commission housing maintenance, regeneration and stock growth.
3. To approve programmes for housing stock investment and confirmation of adjustments to the housing programme.
4. Where there are extenuating medical or other circumstances, review and amend, on an individual basis, the Housing Allocation Policy, in conjunction with the delegated Chief Officer.
5. To approve systems for consultation with tenants and lessees.
6. To sign-off decisions to be taken by the relevant Chief Officer in respect of the Private Sector Leasing Scheme, including Finders Fee and Guaranteed Rental Schemes.
7. Jointly with the Cabinet Member for Corporate Services & Property to authorise the grant of extension of leasehold interests in properties where the Council is freeholder, to consider requests from leaseholders of Council properties for loft conversions and to take all constitutional decisions required in relation to disposals, sales and leases for loft spaces under Council freehold.

Planning & Economic Development

8. To consider representations made on proposals for modifications to the Local Plan / Local Development Framework and to make recommendations to Cabinet as appropriate.
9. To consider representations made to proposals for supplementary planning guidance and to make recommendations to Cabinet as appropriate.
10. To represent the Council on the Uxbridge BID and similar town centre partnership.

Transportation & Roads

11. To make all necessary decisions in pursuit of the Council’s policy on Heathrow Expansion and High Speed 2.
12. To consider comments received as a result of public consultation on traffic management proposals, including waiting and loading restrictions, clearways, controlled parking zones, local safety schemes and to approve the final form of schemes, including approval to the conditions of use for parking permits to e.g. traders, business users, residents.
13. Within the overall budget approved by the Cabinet and Council, to approve the inclusion of individual projects and their variation in the programmes for street lighting, highway maintenance, traffic management, London Cycling Network, London Bus Priority Network, Parking Revenue Account funded schemes, (in consultation with other Cabinet Members as appropriate) within the financial limits set out in the budget framework.
14. To approve or refuse requests for footway parking exemptions.

Other

15. To approve proposals for street naming, naming of buildings and naming of housing schemes and developments.
16. Jointly with the Cabinet Member for Finance & Transformation, to make decisions on the release of monies for capital projects within their remit at and exceeding £100,000.