Lead Member for What?

It occurs to me that I haven't explained which parts of Brent Council I am lead member for, so here goes.

Cllr Jim Moher is Highways and Transportation meaning he fronts stuff like parking, road surfacing, street lighting and furniture, street cleaning, street trees and grass verges. Cllr Lincoln Beswick covers Emergency Planning under his Community Safety Brief.

I front the rest of the Environment and Culture Department's activities. The biggest single chunk is waste management, from bin collections to the waste processing (recycling, landfill etc.) at the other end. I also cover parks and Brent's sports centres; libraries (including the Grange Musuem); arts, including our programme of festivals; cemetaries and the Mortuary service; the regulatory agencies (i.e. the Planning Service, Building Control, Trading Standards, Environmental Health (including Animal Welfare and pest control), Health, Safety and Licensing), cutting the Council's carbon emissions and other sustainability targets. There are also a few other things like fulfilling our pledge to give Brent Fairtrade status, that don't fit easily into any one category.

Reading it through like that makes it all seem a little daunting.