Placeshapers’ chair vows to battle cuts

Tony Stacey, chair of the 51- association Placeshapers, said service quality must not fall victim to public sector cuts.

Mr Stacey, who is chief executive of South Yorkshire Housing Association, said it was impossible to ‘stand in the way of a total wave of public sector cuts’.

But he added that Placeshapers could help ‘make sure our voices are heard and the way the cuts come down the line are less damaging for our services and our tenants’.

Placeshapers will aim to influence the new government in its first year and ensure programmes such as the eco-homes agenda have not forgotten, he said.

Placeshapers’ previous chair, Barbara Thorndick, stepped down earlier this year to take over as managing director of West Kent Consulting.

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