Cllr Eleanor Southwood (Queens Park) was elected to be the new Lead Member for the Environment at the Labour Group AGM today and joins the Cabinet.
She replaces Cllr George Crane who had decided to stand down.
The appointment is welcome as for a time it looked as if there might be no Environment lead member post at all following the outsourcing of most of the department's work to Veolia via the Public Realm contract.
Cllr Southwood was previously on the Scrutiny Committee.
Following her joining the Cabinet this picture of the new Cabinet was circulated on Twitter today:
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They may have been stuck in a lift.
She replaces Cllr George Crane who had decided to stand down.
The appointment is welcome as for a time it looked as if there might be no Environment lead member post at all following the outsourcing of most of the department's work to Veolia via the Public Realm contract.
Cllr Southwood was previously on the Scrutiny Committee.
Following her joining the Cabinet this picture of the new Cabinet was circulated on Twitter today:
They may have been stuck in a lift.