Cabinet Warrants Of Office

Deputy - Technical Services Brief The Deputy is responsible for all matters relating to the Council's affairs in respect of the technical services brief. As such, the deputy is responsible for liaising with other members of the Cabinet, particularly where matters within the brief affect other aspects of Council business or affect the Borough. The Deputy is responsible for ensuring appropriate consultation with partners and the community on matters within the technical services brief. The Deputy will work closely with a designated Cabinet Secretary.

Councillor Alan Whitehead Cabinet Deputy (Technical Services)

Terms of Reference

• To have overall responsibility for;
  • all strategic planning and transportation matters, including local transportation plan and monitoring and review of Unitary Development Plan and development of supplementary planning guidance
  • highways and engineering planning and development
  • construction and maintenance of infrastructure
  • application and management of the Highways Register
  • street lighting, signals and signing facilities
  • Public Transport Authority matters and public transport issues
  • traffic management and road safety
  • parking and town centre traffic management
  • civil engineering and transport operations, including vehicle workshop
  • highways, design and maintenance and street lighting
  • responsible for programme and financial activities
  • and act as the Head of Technical Services
• In consultation with the Executive Leader, to represent and act as an ambassador for the Authority.
• To represent the Council's views on matters of corporate or strategic policy and any other matters which are within the Deputy's terms of reference.
• To request or commission research and other studies on any matters of policy or service provision within these terms of reference.
• To appoint or nominate the Authority's representatives on outside bodies/organisations that fall within these terms of reference.
• To adopt and review on an annual basis the service plans for technical services covered by these terms of reference.
• To take up corporate membership of any appropriate body or organisation whose objectives are considered to be beneficial to the pursuit of the Authority's own activities.
• To take urgent decisions on matters which fall within the Deputy's terms of reference.
• To work with other Cabinet members on matters, as directed by the Executive Leader.
• To submit to the Cabinet;
  • proposals on how to agree annual budget allocations between services covered by these terms of reference
  • recommendations in respect of strategic policy concerning matters covered by these terms of reference
  • all responses to consultation papers, relating to these terms of reference, issued by the Government and outside organisations 
  • annual estimates of expenditure and income in respect of services covered by these terms of reference
  • all policy and/or operational matters which have corporate implications or which cross the remits of other individual deputies
• To lead on energy savings and reduction in carbon emissions within the terms of reference with particular emphasis re vehicle fleet, street lighting and engineering materials.