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News Release from: Chartered Institute of Building [CIOB] | Subject: Board of English Partnerships
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 06 January 2006
Geoff Wright to join board of English
Partnerships
Geoff Wright, CIOB President in 2003-04, is taking one of three new board appointments at the regeneration agency English Partnerships.
Geoff Wright, CIOB President in 2003-04, is taking one of three new board appointments at the regeneration agency English Partnerships, announced at the turn of the year by Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott The three appointments have been awarded to people of long experience who together will bring to the board extensive skills in commercial development, the property industry and housing finance
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 12 Mar 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Described by Margaret Ford, chairman of English Partnerships as 'big hitters', the three new directors will be assisting the board in delivery of the sustainable communities agenda.
Currently the agency is assembling a large number of sites formerly in use by the public sector to open up for new housing development and associated facilities.
It is also playing a keypart in development of the Milton Keynes/South Midlands growth area.
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Mr.Wright is due to retire at the end of June from Hammerson plc where he began as a junior project manager and is now director of Hammerson UK Properties.
For the last 18 years he has had responsibility for construction and project management of the company's worldwide development programme, and has been a member of the board since 1987.
His appointment with the English Partnerships board will run for three years from July 2006.
The other two new directors are John Parker, a chartered accountant whom ODPM nominated for the depth of his experience in the housing sector, and Richard Harrold FRICS, likewise with many years' experience in project delivery at senior levels.
Mr Parker was at the time of his retirement last year chief executive of the Stroud and Swindon Building Society which he joined as finance director in 1984.
For the past six years he was a member of the Building Societies Association Council, being appointed chairman of the association in 2004.
Mr Harrold was until recently chief executive of MEPC ., a leading developer of commercial property in the U.K.
He was previously head of property investment at Hermes Pensions Management .
which took full control of MEPC in 2003 on acquiring GE Real Estate's 50 per cent equity stake.
Mr Harrold is a member of the management oversight committee of Deutsche Bank's global real estate opportunity funds and a board member of the Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth Urban Regeneration Company.
Both John Parker and Richard Harrold are joining the English Partnerships board with immediate effect for three year appointments ending in December 2008.
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