I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 concerning the organisational structure of the Council's property, surveying, estates and building compliance functions.
Information requested
Please provide a copy of the Council's current or most recently held organisational chart(s), organogram(s), establishment structure(s), or equivalent recorded information for the departments, services or teams responsible for any of the following functions:
• Property and estates management
• Building surveying
• Asset management
• Corporate property
• Housing property services
• Planned and capital maintenance
• Capital projects and construction
• Repairs and maintenance
• Facilities management
• Building compliance
• Building safety
• Fire safety / fire compliance relating to the Council's property portfolio
• Statutory compliance relating to buildings and property
• Mechanical and electrical compliance, where this sits within the property or estates function
• Construction project management
• Contract management relating to building, maintenance or construction works
We appreciate that individual local authorities use different departmental and service names. The above list is therefore intended to describe the functions we are interested in as well as the number of roles, rather than prescribe particular department names.
For the relevant departments/services, we are seeking information which identifies, insofar as it is held:
• The name of each relevant department, service or team;
• The organisational hierarchy and reporting structure;
• The job titles/positions within those teams;
• The number of people within those roles;
• Which teams or positions report to which senior roles or departments; and
• The principal functions, responsibilities or service areas undertaken by each relevant department or team.
Personal information
For clarity, we are not requesting the names of individual employees, personal contact information, direct telephone numbers or individual email addresses.
Where an existing organogram or organisational document contains employee names or other personal information which the Council considers exempt from disclosure, we would be content for that personal information to be redacted and for the remainder of the document, including job titles, departmental structure and reporting lines, to be disclosed.
Alternative information where no organogram exists
If the Council does not hold a formal organogram covering these functions, please provide any equivalent recorded information which demonstrates the structure of the relevant services. This might include, for example:
• establishment lists;
• departmental structure documents;
• service directories;
• lists of posts/job titles;
• team structures;
• service descriptions; or
• other documents showing reporting lines and departmental responsibilities.
We are not asking the Council to create new information where it is not already held.
Where separate documents are held for different services, for example, Housing Property Services and Building Compliance, we would be grateful if each relevant document could be provided.
Information already published
If some or all of this information is already publicly available, please provide the specific webpage or document location where the relevant information can be accessed.
Format
We would prefer to receive the information electronically in PDF, Word, Excel or similar.
FOI003563 FOI Facilities
Short Description
Facilities Management Organization
Reference number
FOI003563
Date
09/09/2026
Request