CIH chief executive receives CBE
The chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Housing has been awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday honours list.
Sarah Webb has been honoured for her services to the housing sector, including her work developing arm’s-length management organisations and help setting up the Northern Ireland Housing Executive.
She said: ‘My motivation for what I do has always been rooted in my first experiences as a housing officer in Glasgow: making a difference to the often difficult lives of real people in communities.
‘I’m proud to lead CIH, an organisation which exists to maximise the contribution that housing professionals make to the wellbeing of communities.’
Ms Webb was also head of the community housing task force at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister – the predecessor to the Communities and Local Government department – where she ran a team which gave advice to local authorities, tenants and prospective landlords on housing stock transfer.
Ken Olisa, the chair of homelessness charity Thames Reach since 1996, was honoured with an OBE for his work in tackling homelessness in London.
‘Together we have justified confidence in our vision of ending homelessness in London,’ he said. ‘We know it is about much more than simply providing soup or shelter.’
A Bristol tenant, Peter Farr, has been given an MBE for his voluntary services to housing.
The ex-chair at Bristol Community Housing Foundation worked tirelessly and often took a direct role in negotiating the redevelopment of a social housing estate of more than 600 homes in the north of the city. He also served as a lay tenant inspector for the Audit Commission.
Chief executive of BCHF Oona Goldsworthy said: ‘It’s not all that often that you come across someone like Peter who has spent so many years making a contribution to tenants and to Bristol.’
Others honoured for services to housing:
- Peter Housden, outgoing permanent secretary of the Communities and Local Government department, receives a KCB.
- Brian Etheridge, director or the civil service capability group at the Cabinet Office, and a board member of Sentinel Housing Association, recieves at OBE.
- Bernadette Kelly, who was the director of housing strategy, land and markets directorate at the department for Communities and Local Government, has been given a CB.
- Professor Alan Shaw Murie, Emeritus Professor of urban and regional studies at University of Birmingham, has been awarded a CBE.
- Susan Marie Adams, director of Care and Repair England, was given an OBE for services to the housing sector for older people.
- John Henry Cleary, deputy director of housing and growth programmes team at CLG, has got an OBE.
- William Robert Dunster has an OBE for sustainable housing design
- Patrick Joseph McIntyre, chief executive, Northern Ireland Housing Executive has an OBE.
- Alan Edwards senior executive officer of homelessness legislation, housing directorate, at CLG has an MBE
- William Kenneth Rollinson, director of Care and Repair Leeds, has an MBE
- Dr Edwin Sawacha has an MBE for services to social housing and the community in north west London.
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Anonymous | 16/06/2010 5:24 pm
The CIH has gone downhill. All talk and no action especially in relation to ethnic minorities. Just look at their council!
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