Allister Hayman and Herpreet Kaur Grewal,
Regeneration & Renewal,
5 September 2008
The social homes agency's investment director has been chosen as one of three corporate directors at the nascent national housing and regeneration body, it was announced this week.
Sir Bob Kerslake, chief executive designate of the Homes and Communities Agency, revealed that Housing Corporation investment director Richard Hill has been appointed director of investment and renewal at Haca.
The other two corporate directors to the national agency, which replaces the Housing Corporation and English Partnerships from December, will be Trevor Beattie, currently English Partnerships (EP) director of corporate strategy, who will be responsible for policy, strategy, performance and research; and Eamonn Boylan, Manchester City Council deputy chief executive (regeneration), who will assume responsibility for new ventures and partnerships.
The corporate directors will be bolstered by nine regional directors, whose role, Kerslake said, would be to bridge "national targets and local ambitions".
Pat Ritchie, assistant chief executive (strategy) at regional development agency One North-East, will lead in the North-East; Deborah McLaughlin, Manchester City Council director of housing will take control of the North-West; and David Curtis, Sheffield City Council's director of development, has been appointed to oversee Yorkshire and the Humber.
Margaret Allen, Housing Corporation field director (central), will take the lead in the East Midlands and Paul Spooner, EP regional director North-West and West Midlands, has been appointed in the West Midlands.
In the South, Colin Molton, South West RDA executive director of operations and development, has been appointed to the South-West, while David Edwards, EP regional director southern England, will take control in the South-East. In the East of England, Terry Fuller, managing director of major projects and affordable housing at housebuilder Taylor Wimpey, joins Haca from the private sector. And David Lunts, Greater London Authority executive director for policy and partnerships, will take the reins in London.
A FEW OF THE SUPER-AGENCY'S NEW FACES
- Richard Hill, corporate director, investment and renewal
Hill is investment director at the Housing Corporation (HC), which he joined in 2005. At the corporation, he has overseen two investment rounds of the National Affordable Housing Programme. Previous roles include head of strategy and policy at the health worker training body the NHS University and head of policy and public affairs at good causes distributor the New Opportunities Fund, a precursor to the Big Lottery Fund.
- Terry Fuller, regional director, East of England
Of the nine regional directors, Fuller will be the only private sector representative. He will join Haca from Taylor Wimpey Developments, where he is managing director of major projects and affordable housing. Fuller spent more than a decade in public sector housing management before his last 20 years in the housebuilding industry, delivering affordable housing and public sector urban regeneration schemes. He is also chair of the Home Builders Federation's affordable housing group and on its planning committee.
- Margaret Allen, regional director, East Midlands
She will join as a regional Haca director. Allen has experience of housing in both the public and private sectors. As a chartered accountant, she worked at Leicester City Council and then moved to the position of head of finance with a Midlands-based housing association. In her work at the HC, she has held senior roles in both regulation and investment. She has also sat on the corporation's market renewal and growth delivery boards. Allen says that community development is at the heart of her role.
