Housing Corporation News Release

Housing Corporation announces appointments to association board

19/11/08      Ref: 81/08

The Housing Corporation has announced that it has made three statutory appointments to the board of Novas Scarman Group, a registered social landlord which provides a variety of services in a number of locations, with two main bases in London and the North West.

The appointees are:

• Peter Molyneux, Chair, Kensington and Chelsea Primary Care Trust;
• Tina Barnard, Chief Executive, Watford Community Housing Trust;
• David Roberts-Jones, Chair, Hexagon Housing Association.

In October 2008 the Housing Corporation announced that it had instituted an independent statutory inquiry into the affairs of the Novas Scarman Group. The inquiry will investigate aspects of the financial management of the Group. The Corporation decided, at the same time, to make statutory appointments to enhance the skills and expertise available to the board. 

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Note to editors:

1) The statutory inquiry was announced in the Corporation’s News Release Number 77/08 dated 24 October 2008.

2) The Housing Corporation is responsible for regulating housing associations, which provide some two million homes across England.

3) The Housing Corporation is the Government's national affordable homes agency, responsible for investing in new affordable homes and regulating nearly 2,000 housing associations across England. The Corporation's £8.4 billion investment programme for 2008-11 is its biggest ever. Its previous investment programme of £3.9 billion for 2006-08 funded 92,752 homes; 52,929 of these for affordable rent, and 39,823 for affordable sale through the Government's HomeBuy initiatives, helping people to get a foot on the property ladder.

4) The Housing Corporation is working with English Partnerships and Communities and Local Government to establish the proposed Homes and Communities Agency and Tenant Services Authority by early December