Policy portfolio
Councillor Kevin Buttery (Leader of the council)
- Better services and saving money priority
- Make recommendations to the council on budgets and investment programmes
- Property, land and equipment
- Corporate governance
- Democratic engagement
- Equality
- Financial, information and legal matters
- Employee matters including health and safety
- Communications and consultation
Housing and public health portfolio
Councillor Paul Hillier
- More homes priority
- New home bonus
- Assessment of all types of housing need within the borough
- Housing strategy
- Affordable housing
- Housing and council tax benefits
- Empty homes
- Housing advice, allocation and requests
- Homeless persons
- Harassment and unlawful eviction
- Private sector housing standards including housing in multiple occupation
- Housing adaptations for people with disabilities
- Home insulation and fuel poverty
- Active and healthier priority
- Health improvement
- Communicable disease control
- Occupational health and safety
- Skin piercing
- Food Safety
- Pollution control and noise (including contaminated land issues)
- Culture, sport and community leisure
- Control of animals
Regeneration and community safety portfolio
Councillor Tony Harper
- Community safety (chairman of the Community Safety Partnership)
- Chairman of the Amber Valley Community Safety Partnership
- Derbyshire Safer Communities Board
- Police and crime panel member
- Community cohesion
- Safeguarding children and vulnerable adults
- Licensing
- Fly posting, graffiti and abandoned vehicles
- Emergency and business continuity planning
- Market towns that serve the need of local communities priority
- Physical regeneration and investment schemes
- Redevelopment proposals
- Local development framework
- Town centre master planning
- Tourism and business developments
- Neighbourhood planning
- Development management
- Partnership working and external funding
- Conservation in the built environment
Environment portfolio
Councillor Trevor Ainsworth
- Clean streets and great parks priority
- Car parking
- Markets & fairs
- Refuse collection & recycling
- Highway cleaning
- Winter maintenance
- Parks, cemeteries & open spaces
- Trees & nature conservation
- Neighbourhood wardens
Need further help or information?
Contact the team directly on 01773 841636 or email alison.steeples@ambervalley.gov.uk
