Senior Management Team

Joint Chief Executive

Pedro Wrobel

Guildford Borough Council & Waverley Borough Council

Email: pedro.wrobel@waverley.gov.uk

Economy, Planning and Place

Ezra Wallace

Joint Strategic Director of Economy, Planning and Place

Guildford Borough Council & Waverley Borough Council

Email: ezra.wallace@waverley.gov.uk

Finance

Richard Bates

Joint Strategic Director, Finance (Section 151 officer)

Guildford Borough Council & Waverley Borough Council

Email: richard.bates@waverley.gov.uk

Housing, Communities and Environment

Julian Higson

Joint Strategic Director of Housing, Communities and Environment

Guildford Borough Council & Waverley Borough Council

Email: julian.higson@guildford.gov.uk

The Assistant Directors are responsible for these functions across both Guildford Borough Council and Waverley Borough Council:

Assets and Property: Marieke van der Reijden

• Property and land assets
• Engineers
• Facilities.

Commercial Services: Kelvin Mills

• Building control
• Events
• Heritage
• Leisure
• Parking (on and off street)
• Waverley Training Services.

Community Services: Sam Hutchison

• Careline
• Community grants
• Community Safety, incl CS Partnership
• Disabled facilities grants, adaptations
• Family support
• Health
• Safeguarding
• Supporting vulnerable people, migrants and refugees.

Communications and Customer Services: Peter Stevens (Interim)

• Customer services
• Complaints
• Ombudsman
• Case management
• Digital services
• ICT and business systems.

Environmental Services: Marcus Harvey

• Bereavement
• Green spaces, parks, countryside, trees
• Fleet operations
• Street cleaning
• Waste and recycling.

Housing Services: Annalisa Howson

• Homelessness
• Housing advice
• Housing maintenance and repairs
• Landlord services.

Legal Services and Information Governance: Claire Beesly

• Legal services - Planning, contracts and litigation law
• Information governance, including Freedom of Information and Subject Access Requests.

Planning Development: Claire Upton-Brown

• Planning applications
• Planning enforcement
• Planning policy, design, conservation, transport
• Planning integration and improvement.

Regeneration and Economic Development: Abi Lewis

• Corporate capital projects
• Economic development
• Housing delivery
• Regeneration.

Regulatory Services: Richard Homewood

• Air quality
• Corporate health and safety
• Emergency planning
• Environmental health/crime
• Food safety
• Licensing
• Private sector housing.

Strategy and Corporate Services: Robin Taylor

• Business transformation
• Climate change
• Communications and engagement
• HR, learning and development, payroll
• Strategy, policy and performance
• Programme assurance
• Risk management, business continuity.