David Plank and Kristina Shaw-Hamilton join the Corporate Management Team alongside Trevor Scott and Chris Bending. In addition, Liane Tew has been appointed Head of Customer, Digital, Revenue & Benefits; Clare McGough is the new Head of Legal & Governance and Chris Bone moves up to Head of Waste, Assets & Crematorium. We also welcome Nichola Watters who has started as Head of Planning Policy, Economy and Climate Change.
Cabinet members expressed their gratitude and best wishes to Averil Price, Wealden’s Director of Customer & Community Services, who has relocated to Wales. Averil has worked in local government for 31 years, and at director level for the last 20 years. She left in November and will be greatly missed.