The council is structured into 6 directorates:

• Children’s Services
• Environment
• Finance and Corporate Services
• Residents Services
• Community Services
• Housing and Regeneration

The Housing and Regeneration directorate delivers the Council’s housing management services to 13,000 residents and 4,500 leaseholders. You can see an overview of some of the key challenges facing the directorate here.

The Hammersmith and Fulham borough is represented by 46 Councillors:

• 30 Conservative
• 16 Labour

The overall management structure chart can be viewed below:

Senior Management Structure Chart.

Corporate Performance Plan 2008-20011

Our corporate performance plan outlines how we intend to deliver on our objectives and priorities over the next 3 years. It will be updated annually to reflect the progress made. 

The council’s key priorities

Our vision is to work with local residents and partners to create a borough of opportunity for all. We are putting in place the key building blocks of opportunity to enable all local people to have a real stake in the area and share in its growing prosperity. Our key priorities are to:

• Deliver high quality, value for money public services– to deliver the highest quality services at the lowest possible cost to the taxpayer. We want to delight local people with the service they receive and the value for money we provide. The council is committed to reducing council tax and its ambition is to become the most efficient local authority in the country.                 
• Deliver a top quality education for all – to improve standards, promote autonomy and deliver greater choice and diversity for parents.                 
• Tackle crime and anti-social behaviour– our objective is to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour and thus improve the quality of life by reducing the environment for crime and the fear of crime.                 
• Create a cleaner, greener borough– we aim to markedly improve the local environment, delivering cleaner streets all year round and improving parks so everyone can enjoy our green open spaces. There will be strict enforcement and zero tolerance of littering, graffiti and fly tipping.                 
• Promote home ownership– to make home ownership more affordable for a greater number of residents. To increase home ownership and help ensure that more local people stay in the Borough and have a stake in its future.                 
• Regenerate the most deprived areas of the Borough  – supporting the economic, social and physical regeneration of the most deprived and rundown parts of the borough, such as the White City Opportunities area. 
• Maximise job opportunities– through regeneration initiatives, raising educational standards and providing the opportunity for people to develop skills for the future. Introduce initiatives, such as “Slivers of Time” - an electronic marketplace approach to solving worklessness and raising income levels through providing part time/agency employment opportunities for residents on benefits.     

Full details of the Corporate Plan are available to download.      

Community Strategy Vision & Priorities

The Borough Partnership’s vision for Hammersmith & Fulham is to create a Borough of opportunity for all, in which children receive a better education, neighbourhoods are safer, healthier and stronger, the local environment is protected and improving, there is more opportunity for home ownership and local people receive high quality, public services that deliver real value for money.

As partners in delivering local services our aim is to combine opportunity, with social responsibility and social justice to assist the vast majority of people in the Borough to help themselves while supporting the most vulnerable in the community. To further this aim, we have agreed a set of key priorities that reflect our commitment to delivering a better quality of life for residents. One or more of these key priorities will define all of our partnership activities:

A top quality education for all
We aim to improve school standards, promote school autonomy and deliver greater choice and diversity for parents.

Tackling crime and antisocial behaviour
Our objective is to tackle crime and antisocial behaviour and to improve the quality of life by reducing the environment for crime and the fear of crime.

Creating a cleaner, greener borough
We aim to markedly improve the local environment, delivering cleaner streets all year round and improving parks so everyone can enjoy the green open spaces the Borough has to offer. There will be strict enforcement of littering, graffiti and fly tipping.

Promoting home ownership
Our aim is to make home ownership more affordable for a greater number of residents and, in so doing, increase home ownership in the Borough. This will help address the current tenure imbalances and ensure that more local people stay in the borough and have a stake in its future. In particular we will provide more home ownership opportunities for key workers, first time buyers and those on low to middle incomes.

Setting the framework for a healthy borough
Promoting healthier lifestyles and a healthier environment, reducing the use of more acute services and helping vulnerable residents to live more independent lives through the provision of high quality, responsive health and social care services.

Delivering high quality, value for money public services
We will seek to deliver the highest quality services at the lowest possible cost to the taxpayer. We want to delight local people; not only with the service they receive, but also with the value for money we give them.

Regenerating the most deprived parts of the borough
By supporting local economic development and regeneration, raising educational standards and providing the opportunity for people to develop the right skills for the future.

You can find full details of the Community Strategy here.