Trevor Galley
Lancashire
A motivational leader with a successful record within the Social Housing and voluntary sectors. An experienced confident, resourceful and politically astute professional, with a background in strategic and operational leadership and delivery of complex strategies; business plans and projects with a considerable track record of transformational and cultural change. An outcome focused senior executive, with extensive experience in service delivery and development; seeking new challenges as an Executive Manager which will utilise his strong transferable skills. Experience income maximisation, advocacy, communications, and governance; VFM-best value, strong commercial outlook; wide knowledge of public affairs and policy making; used to operating at board level, with opinion leaders and all levels of government. A quick learner equipped to “hit the ground running.”
Key skills and knowledge:
Leadership , people management , negotiating , financial management , budget control , planning
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Comment on: Landlords to float on stock exchange
It’s hard not to be political about social housing so please hear me out. Public sector housing emerged for very important reasons; most importantly the failure of private landlordism and the infamous urban slums and landlords. Public sector housing provisions were never perfect and were as now victim to government economic policy. Successive governments sought to control/limit public spending with no long term cross party national strategy despite what we know of private sector failures/abuses – many of us will remember Peter Rachman and the phrase "Rachmanism", and the resulting 1965 Rent Act which added to the security of tenants and we all are aware of the clear linkage to good quality housing and health. Public sector provision was driven by liberalism, and where are the liberals now jointly leading on real privatisation of social housing? The real assault on housing took hold during the cuts to public spending and investment in the 1970s and was cemented with the election of Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government in 1979. By the late 1980s in response to government constraints many local authorities began selling off their entire housing stocks to existing and specially formed not-for-profit companies and the realisation that they would have a financial benefit. However, even this like the RTB has limits and more so in the current economy.
Alarm bells should be ringing now - not least as the UK’s largest listed private landlord is set to join the wave of for-profit social housing providers - Grainger application to the Homes and Communities Agency’s new regulatory committee may make Grainger one of the most significant new entrants to the affordable housing market but who else will be buying the stock will we see foreign companies buying in like they are doing with footy clubs? (Chinese/Russian/American)
Well Marget (No pun intended) but here are and the market is about to provide? -
Comment on: Landlords to float on stock exchange
No suprise then that theUK’s largest listed private landlord is set to join the wave of for-profit social housing providers. Grainger last week submitted an application to the Homes and Communities Agency’s new regulatory committee. If successful, it would make Grainger one of the most significant new entrants to the affordable housing market.
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Comment on: Landlords to float on stock exchange
Lets hope the Government recover their investment on behalf to reduce the overall debt they now have us in?
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Comment on: Landlords to float on stock exchange
Oh! a quick reminder, public housing emerged for a very important reason the acute failure of private landlord in the 19th and early 20th centuries that had produced the infamous urban slums of Britain and lets not forget housing is a basic human need and right and taking it out of the public welfare system and firmly back into the competitive markets, property speculation and self interest bears ill for the people it was set up to house/help.
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Comment on: Landlords to float on stock exchange
Well here are double dipped and once again we stagger from one crisis to the next, inducing new rounds of bailouts, austerity and privatisation, societies are being dispossessed of public goods built up over generations, generating deepening crises of everyday life; the government national housing strategy is failing, its not stimulating the economy or adding/supporting growth and the rich are getting richer.
The housing crisis takes 3 basic forms the rising rate of home loss caused by banks’ repossessing as home owners default on their now un payable mortgages; the shortages of affordable housing. Its worth noting that average wage levels have been almost stagnant for decades while the average price of buying and renting has gone up massively(welfare reform is not working) and a terrible economic forecast is (Not least the euro crisis) generating another factor - the low-rate of new house building. The number officially waiting for a council house or other social rented accommodation continuous to increase. The recent report from the three leading housing orgs states the Government is failing on 5 of its 10 housing indicators. Rising home loss, unaffordable housing and a shortage of a social housing directly feed into a third housing crisis – the growing scale of homelessness and rough sleeping.
The opportunity find extra cash and the possible removal of any regulation and less accountability – well lets look at other public utilities and their sell off – its just good business and even though Defend Housing must be clapping their hands as Privatisation of social housing is now here they have along with National Tenant and Resident Organisation and large third sector organisations including many large trade unions that fund the three major parties have done little collectively or individually to stop the governments direction of travel. The Big three have finally joined forces and been openly critical of the government’s failing national strategy but will they and other bodies bite back?????????????
As has been stated we are at the beginning of an end game for social housing as we know it.
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Cancelling a Termination
An elderly couple in their 70's live in council property. A group of elderly Bungalows formerly a Trust but managed by Fylde BC in Lancashire. The Trusts Board are all Councillors or senior council o
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