Our new committee members
01/07/10
Here we introduce our new members of the CIH South East committee - Peter Brooks, Abdou Jallow, Diana MacLean, Kristin Sjourr and Catherine Stubbings.
Peter Brooks
Peter works for Croudace Homes in Partnership Ltd, a privately-owned housing development company based in the South East. He has worked for the group for 28 years and, during this time, has worked in all the key departments within housing development.
Peter is responsible for land, business development and marketing, and leads Croudace's procurement on all forms of affordable housing projects. He has a wide range of development knowledge and experience from land purchase, finance, sales, construction and marketing, and places the highest importance on communication. Peter has been a CIH member for eight years.
Outside of work, he supports a Brighton and Hove Albion ('a real football team!'), bringing a grassroots approach to the other 'prawn sandwich brigade'.
Abdou Jallow
Abdou is originally from the Gambia in West Africa where he worked as a housing surveyor for his dad's company. Housing and community development have always been his passion.
He first came into contact with Catalyst Community Housing Association in 2007 as a resident of a shared-ownership flat. Through Catalyst he heard about the Chartered Institute of Housing Level 2 Certificate in Housing. After completing this qualification, he got a placement at the association's Reading office where he learned about resident associations. He has since formed one within his own block and been nominated as block representative.
And, following his certificate and placement, Abdou has now embarked on a housing studies degree at London South Bank University.
Diana MacLean
Diana is Strategic Housing Manager at New Forest District Council - she moved to the South East from Scotland in 2009. A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Housing, she has worked in housing for over ten years holding various senior posts within LSVT and national RSLs in housing management, policy, performance and business strategy. She has also been member of a housing association board.
For her MSc Housing, Diana researched housing sex offenders. As a result, she was on various Scottish Government working groups developing and implementing a National Accommodation Strategy for Sex Offenders and MAPPA.
Diana edited the CIH practice guidance on strategy. And, until moving south, she was a visiting lecturer at the Scottish Police College, lecturing on housing to the Crime Management Division. She has a particular interest in rural housing, living and working in the New Forest, and is a passionate advocate for councils building council housing.
Kristin Sjourr
Committee member, Kristin works for Hyde Housing Association.
Catherine Stubbings
Cath set up her own affordable housing consultancy, Celandine Strategic Housing, in 2009 after a career in housing management and strategy with the London boroughs of Southwark and Bexley, South Bedfordshire District Council and Oxford City Council. From 2006-09 she was Housing Policy Advisor to the South East England Regional Assembly, supporting the work of the Regional Housing Board and leading development of the Regional Housing Strategy. She has undertaken board and committee roles with the Guinness Trust and Hightown Praetorian Housing Association. She has a French studies degree and experience of teaching, training and mentoring complete her background.
Cath is a CIH Fellow, having been a member for longer than she cares to admit. She has a strong interest in learning and development and was an assessor for TPP/APEX.
Since setting up her own business she has undertaken a wide range of projects relating to the Homes and Communities Agency Single Conversation, supporting rural affordable housing delivery, and meeting the housing needs and aspirations of older people.