Councillor Amy Brookes
Title: Cabinet Member for Housing
Party: Labour
Political grouping: Labour
Ward: Rother Vale
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More information about this councillor
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Advice surgeries will be held at Catcliffe Memorial Hall, Old School Ln, Catcliffe, Rotherham S60 5SP on:
9:30 – 10:30 Friday 26th April
Or please contact via email to arrange a telephone call or online meeting at mutual convenience
Please note that due to the borough’s all out elections in May, Friday the 26th of April, will be my final surgery taking place during my current term of office. The new term of office following the elections is from May 2024 to May 2028 and any future surgeries will be advertised in due course.
Contact information
Correspondence address:
c/o Rotherham Town Hall
Moorgate Street
Rotherham
S60 2TH
Bus. phone: 01709 255943
Email: amy.brookes@rotherham.gov.uk
Responsibilities
Committee appointments
Terms of Office
- 06/05/2016 - 06/05/2021
- 06/05/2021 -
Appointments to outside bodies
- South Yorkshire Joint Committee on Archaeology
- South Yorkshire Joint Committee on Archives
- South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority Housing and Infrastructure Board
Additional Information
Cabinet Member Housing - Councillor Amy Brookes (Currently on maternity leave. For all Housing matters please contact Councillor S Allen)
Councillor Brookes was elected to the council in 2016 to represent Rother Vale ward and appointed as Cabinet Member for Housing in 2021. A lifelong resident of Rotherham she went to Wickersley Comprehensive School before reading Archaeology, Anthropology and Classics at the University of Durham.
She works in higher education supporting world leading researchers to form partnerships and communicate on the creation of socially, environmentally, and economically sustainable urban futures. In the past she worked at South Yorkshire Women’s Development Trust as well as a further community development trust in Sheffield. This was followed by a year as a teacher in a vocational sixth form in Sweden. Her career in higher education began in international marketing and partnerships which involved travel to the Gulf, Middle East and Central Asia.
Areas of responsibility include:
· Management, improvement and adaptation of council housing stock
· Oversight of Housing Revenue Account
· Housing Strategy and affordability policies
· Selective Licensing and regulation of private landlords
· Homelessness and rough sleeping
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ROTHERHAM METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL |
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SUMMARY OF MEMBERS' ALLOWANCES AND |
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EXPENSES FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023 |
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Councillor |
Basic |
Special Responsibility Allowance |
Travel |
Co-optees Allowance |
Total |
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Brookes A. |
11,471.04 |
12,924.96 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
24,396.00 |
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