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Retirement housing specialist appoints new finance lead
Extra-care and retirement property provider Housing 21 has appointed Andy Howarth as chief financial officer.
The 18,000-home landlord said that Mr Howarth will take up the role from 1 April 2021.
He joins from Midlands landlord WHG, where he has worked as interim director of finance since April 2020.
He also served as group finance director at Platform Housing Group, the 45,000-home social landlord formed from the merger between Waterloo Housing and Fortis Living in 2018.
He had been executive director of finance at Fortis Living for four years prior to the merger.
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Mr Howarth will replace Simon Mellow, who is currently operating as interim chief financial officer.
Mr Mellor took up the role in December 2020 following the departure of Paul Weston, who had held the role for more than eight years.
The social landlord announced in December that it would convert all of its existing affordable rent homes to social rent after it was found to have overcharged residents. This error led to a regulatory governance downgrade from G1 to G2 in June 2020.
At the time the Regulator of Social Housing said that the landlord needed “to strengthen its rent setting process, controls and board assurance to ensure it can deliver and sustain legally and regulatory compliant rent and service charges”.
In 2019/20 the group reported a surplus of £17.3m – down from £18m the year before – and a turnover of £192.3m.
