NEWS HR

New Care has promoted Dawn Collett to the role of Commissioning Director.

Sovereign Housing Association has hired former Catalyst property director Tom Titherington as its new executive director for development and commercial.

Northern housing association Yorkshire Housing has appointed Nick Atkin as its new chief executive.

Calor has strengthened its offering to the rural housing development market with the appointment of two key new specifier consultants. Ivan Griffiths will help manage the Eastern and Southern regions, while Rachel Heyes is responsible for the North, Scotland and Wales.

Property developer and investor Kajima has strengthened its operations in Ireland with the addition of Nigel Skinner as Project Director.

The deputy chief executive of a newly merged London housing association has announced her departure from the organisation. Elizabeth Froude, deputy chief executive of Notting Hill Genesis, said today that she was leaving her role.

A London council has appointed the board for its housing company, with a former regional Barratt Homes boss as its chair. Richard Reynolds, previously managing director for London and the South East at Barratt, will head the board of Lambeth Council’s company, Homes for Lambeth (HfL). Wendy Stokes, who was formerly managing director of Ealing Council’s development company Broadway Living, has been appointed as a non-executive director along side Peter Walters, chair of Sutton Council’s ALMO, Sutton Housing Partnership. Six senior officers and one councillor at the local authority will make up the rest of the HfL board.

Cornwall Care, the largest care provider in Cornwall, has appointed Anne Thomas as its new CEO.