The Appointments Sub Committee of Tower Hamlets Council is scheduled to meet on Wednesday 2 April 2025 at 10:00am. The meeting report pack indicates that the committee is scheduled to interview candidates for the post of Director of Regeneration, Housing Supply and Assets, which has been held on an interim basis since October 2024.

The meeting is scheduled to be held in private, and the report pack states that:

As the substantive business on the agenda is exempt/confidential, the usual arrangements for public attendance do not apply.

The report pack for the meeting includes a number of documents. Here is a summary of the discussion scheduled to take place in the meeting, based on the contents of the report pack.

Interviews for the post of Director of Regeneration, Housing Supply and Assets

A report included in the meeting pack sets out the agenda for the meeting, which appears to be entirely concerned with the appointment of a new Director of Regeneration, Housing Supply and Assets.

The agenda indicates that the committee is scheduled to interview candidates for the role in private, in accordance with the provisions of Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972.

A job description is included in the report pack which describes the role as being:

Responsible for the delivery of much-needed additional homes into the Borough which aligns with the medium-term financial plan.

The report pack also indicates that the successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of the Mayor's capital projects, and that the Council's assets are performing in accordance with the aims set out in the Tower Hamlets Corporate Plan.

The report indicates that the new Director will work closely with the Mayor, Lutfur Rahman, to achieve these aims.

The agenda indicates that, after interviewing the candidates, the committee is scheduled to decide whether to recommend one of the candidates for the role to the Mayor and Executive. The report pack indicates that if the committee does recommend a candidate, the Mayor and Executive will have 48 hours to consider the recommendation and make objections before an appointment is made.

The shortlisted candidates are not named in the publicly available documents. The report pack indicates that, after the meeting has taken place, the minutes will be redacted to remove exempt information before being made publicly available.