Communities

Communities (formerly known as Housing & Environment) has a wide range of responsibilities. It provides housing services and services for older people and vulnerable adults. It also has a lead role in land use and transport planning, economic and sustainable development and environmental policy. It co-ordinates the Council's response in emergencies and is also the environmental conscience of the Council.

This means for example: a resident's house will have received planning permission from the service, and their refuse collected by us. If you're a Council tenant you'll also have us as your landlord, carrying out repairs and improvements to your home. Your walk to work will be along a pavement we maintain and clean while a drive to work will use a road traffic network devised and maintained by us; children will be assisted to use safe ways of walking to school by us; parks and countryside you visit are maintained by us; and the restaurant you visit will have been inspected by us.

Executive Director - Barbara Renton

Senior Service Manager Housing - Elaine Ritchie

Responsible for:

• Council Housing
• Housing rent collection and arrears
• Housing Repairs and improvements
• Homelessness
• Policy and commissioning

Head of Environmental and Consumer Services - Mark Butterworth

Responsible for:

• Direct Services (Operations) all front line activities which include Burials, Fleet Management,Grounds Maintenance, Kerbside Collection, Public Toilets, Street Cleansing and Waste Disposal/Recycling 
• Regulatory Services including Environmental Health, Food Safety, Land and Water Quality, Trading Standards and Animal Welfare
• Roads Maintenance Partnership
• Street Lighting Partnership 
• Structures and Flooding
• Traffic and Network
• Waste Services and Community Greenspace including Bereavement Services, Perth Crematorium and North Inch Golf Course
• Corporate Health and Safety Team (interim arrangements in place)

Head of Business and Resources - Fraser Crofts

Responsible for:

• Finance and Governance
• Capital Programme Office
• Civil Contingencies and Emergency Planning
• Corporate Asset Management Team
• Public Transport Unit
• Parking Operations 
• Business Support, Business Improvement and Performance

Head of Planning and Development - David Littlejohn

Responsible for:

• Development Management
• Building Standards
• Planning and Housing Strategy
• Roads Infrastructure
• Place Development
• Enterprise and Investment
• Employability, Skills and Special Projects

Head of Culture & Communities Services - Fiona Robertson

Responsible for:

• Communities Services - adult literacy, adult and community learning, community capacity building
• Community Planning and Empowerment policy and strategy
• Culture and Sport policy and strategy
• Strategic commissioning of culture, sport, adult and community learning services
• Common Good and Community Grant schemes
• Local Asset Transfers
• Gaelic Development
• Perth City Cultural Transformation Programme