Join our teams focused on town planning, environment, and public spaces ensure our region remains beautiful and sustainable.
The Place Directorate is home to a diverse range of services which help shape the physical environment, the health, safety, wellbeing, and resilience of our communities across West Berkshire.
It is home to our Emergency Planning team, which works to build community resilience and plan for incidents such as flooding, fires or other emergencies so that the district is as protected as possible. It also includes the Public Protection Partnership (PPP), a team which works at regional level to regulate public-facing licensed businesses and make sure the public are not at risk. PPP cover the areas of Licensing, Trading Standards and Environmental Health.
The other teams in the department include our passionate Libraries team who look after the district's 8 libraries; our Leisure team who manage our playing pitches and leisure centre contract; our Culture team who oversee Shaw House, the Museum and our other heritage assets; and the Building Communities Together Team, who work closely with the Police and other partners to support community safety.
Please look at the links below to read more about our services and the exciting opportunities available at West Berkshire Council.
"West Berkshire's Place Directorate has a great breadth of vibrant diverse services with a shared ambition to ensure West Berkshire's places continue to be a great place to live and work. With our drive to achieve net zero we're focussed on maintaining, improving and growing our places to a standard that protects and enhances the environment, creates job opportunities for all and plans for the new communities of the future. From managing our highway network, to stimulating economic growth, to meeting local housing need, to protecting our countryside and enabling a circular economy we're passionate about West Berkshire and the residents we serve." - Clare Lawrence - Executive Director - Place Directorate
