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
- Waste and Customer Services
One Permanent Full Time Employee
Salary Bracket – £135,000 to £180,000
Email: chiefexec@wealden.gov.uk
Corporate Director – Place | Chris Bending
- Planning and Environmental Services
- Climate Change, Planning Policy and Economic Development
- Environmental Health
- Housing
One Permanent Full Time Employee
Salary Bracket – £100,000 to £130,000
Email: chris.bending@wealden.gov.uk
Corporate Director – Governance and Projects | Kristina Shaw-Hamilton
- Legal, Democratic Services and Information Governance
- Assets and Major Projects
- HR and Organisational Development
- Digital and Benefits
One Permanent Full Time Employee
Salary Bracket – £100,000 to £130,000
Email: Kristina.Shaw-Hamilton@wealden.gov.uk
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
One Permanent Full Time Employee
Salary Bracket – £80,000 to £95,000
Email: laurence.woolven@wealden.gov.uk
Chris Bone – Head of Waste and Customer Services
- Waste and Recycling Management
- Street Scene
- Emergency Planning
- Customer Services
One Permanent Full Time Employee
Salary Bracket – £80,000 to £95,000
Email: chris.bone@wealden.gov.uk
Under the Directorate of Place:
Stacey Robins – Head of Planning & Environmental Services
- Building Control
- Conservation & Enforcement
- Development Management
- Environmental Protection
- Land Charges
One Permanent Full Time Employee
Salary Bracket – £80,000 to £95,000
Email: stacey.robins@wealden.gov.uk
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
One Permanent Full Time Employee
Salary Bracket – £80,000 to £95,000
Email: nichola.watters@wealden.gov.uk
Richard Parker-Harding – Head of Environmental Health (shared with Rother District Council)
- Public Health
- Licensing
- Pollution Control
Gemma Forshaw – Head of Housing Services
- Housing Policy
- Affordable Housing
- Housing Options & Allocations
- Housing Property
- Private Housing
One Permanent Full Time Employee
Salary Bracket – £80,000 to £95,000
Email: gemma.forshaw@wealden.gov.uk
Under the Directorate of Governance and Corporate Services are:
Clare McGough Chief Legal and Governance Officer (Solicitor to the Council, Monitoring Officer and Data Protection Officer).
- Legal Services,
- Democratic Services
- Information Governance.
One Permanent Full Time Employee
Salary Bracket – £80,000 to £95,000
Email: clare.mcgough@wealden.gov.uk
Iain Robertson – Interim Head of Assets and Major Projects
- Commercial Strategy and New Income Generation
- Major Projects
One Full Time Employee interim/Temporary
Salary Bracket – £80,000 to £95,000
Email: iain.robertson@wealden.gov.uk
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
One Permanent Full Time Employee
Salary Bracket – £80,000 to £95,000
Email: sarah.garner@wealden.gov.uk
Liane Tew – Head of Digital, Revenues and Benefits
- ICT
- Digital Policy
- Benefits administration
- Revenues (Council Tax and Business Rates) administration
One Permanent Full Time Employee
Salary Bracket – £80,000 to £95,000
Email: liane.tew@wealden.gov.uk
Further information relating to Senior Officers Pay can be found in our Statements of Accounts