County Council Chief Exec to go to Cambridgeshire?
It looks as though Mark Lloyd, the Chief Executive of Durham County Council will be leaving the North East for a similar post at the head of Cambridgeshire County Council. His appointment is on the agenda for a Cambridgeshire County Council meeting on 10 January 2008.
Although Mark has been a driving force behind the move to unitary local government in County Durham, I have always found him a top class officer who has worked hard for the County and who has always played fair with the minority groups while, of course, having to implement the policies of the ruling Labour group. I certainly wish him well in his future career.
The down side of this move is that Durham County Council will be left without a Chief Executive at a time when the extremely complex move to unitary status is taking place [subject to the judicial review appeal that is due to be heard in a few weeks time].
No doubt the existing senior officers at County Hall will work hard to cover all the bases, but the priority must now be to get a new Chief Executive appointed as soon as possible, especially as the leadership of the Labour Group has been looking so flaky in recent weeks.
have your say
