Mark Walker is promoted to managing director of Seddon Housing Partnerships after seven years with the corporate, together with the previous 3 as business director.
In his new function, Walker will lead Seddon’s paintings with social housing suppliers around the north of England and the Midlands.
He succeeds Peter Jackson, who’s stepping down after virtually twenty years with the trade.
Walker has led Seddon’s paintings with landlords to extend new-build capability and retrofit getting old estates. He has overseen regeneration initiatives, together with at Whitebirk in Blackburn, the place 152 new properties are being constructed to interchange getting old housing and make higher use of the world, along the Shadsworth property scheme, additionally in Blackburn, offering 93 properties for social hire.
Walker stated: “Seddon has a proud historical past of running with landlords to construct new properties and regenerate neighbourhoods whilst hanging native other people on the middle of its paintings, developing jobs and making an investment in communities. I’m proud in an effort to proceed that paintings.
“We all know housing associations and councils are beneath power to step up supply, whilst proceeding to spend money on present properties. We additionally know the operational, governance and monetary demanding situations the ones pressures deliver, and our purpose is at all times to paintings in partnership to free up construction alternatives, fortify with capability and abilities, and ensure tenants pressure alternate and funding within the properties and puts the place they are living.
“As a family-owned trade, Seddon can paintings with landlords in ways in which others steadily can’t. We’re versatile, values-driven, pragmatic and in a position to evolve to adjustments available in the market to lend a hand schemes stay viable. On the similar time, we have now an unwavering dedication to handing over social worth, developing native jobs and leaving a favorable legacy anyplace we make investments.
“Higher properties result in higher lives, and my center of attention is on proceeding the paintings Peter and I’ve constructed – increasing our partnerships and supporting landlords to ship properties and estates that meet the desires of contemporary dwelling.”
Seddon leader govt Jonathan Seddon stated that Walker had “performed a pivotal function in shaping our Housing Partnerships trade over fresh years and has the enjoy, values and management to proceed its expansion”.
He added: “This luck has been constructed by means of a robust management staff, and I need to recognise the numerous contributions of Peter Jackson, Richard Sterling and Tony Clark, who along side Mark have labored to reinforce the trade and place it for the long run.
“I’d additionally love to sincerely thank Peter Jackson for his remarkable contribution to Seddon over twenty years. His management, along the broader staff, has left the trade in an overly robust place, and his paintings along Mark has ensured a clean transition and a transparent platform for the long run.”
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