Sinead Butters was promoted from Director of Operations to Chief Executive at Aspire Housing. She succeeds retiring Tony Billington in September.
Pavillion Housing appointed Nick Coverdale as its new Head of Housing Services. He was previously SE Regional Manager for Hastoe Housing Association.
Kevin Lowry joined Three Valleys Housing as its new Chief Executive. He moved there from Aldridge and Brownhills Trust, one of six housing trusts that form the Walsall Housing Group, where he was Chief Executive.
Leslie Morphy was appointed as Chief Executive of the homelessness charity Crisis. She moves there in November from the Prince's Trust, where she is the UK Director of Programmes & Policy.
Martin Pollhammer was appointed as Chief Executive at East Lothian Housing Association and moves there from Scottish Borders Housing Association, where he was its Housing Projects Director.
Bernie Rose joined Retirement Lease Housing Group as Director of Group Operations. She was previously an Assistant Director at Metropolitan Home Ownership.
Phil Stephens moved up at Sovereign Housing Group from Head of New Business to Group Development Director.
Pinnacle Regeneration Group and Regenter announced that former Housing Corporation Director Steve Trueman, was joining as their new Director of Housing Investment. Starting in September, Mr Trueman will be working closely on new asset-based initiatives with Regenter, a leading investor in and developer of social housing and community based PFI schemes.
Peter Williams announced he was standing down from his role as Deputy Director General of the Council of Mortgage Lenders at the end of September. After 12 years with the CML, he is setting up his own consultancy.
Nigel Wilson was appointed as Chief Executive of Parkway Green Housing Trust, which in October takes over the management of some 6,000 homes from Manchester Council. He is currently Director of Business Development at Beth Johnson Housing Association.
Lord Richard Best joined the Board of Hanover Housing Group, where he is expected to become Chair. His term as Director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation comes to an end in December.
The Chairman of the Housing Corporation, Peter Dixon, was re-appointed to the Board for a further year as from 1 October 2006.
Roger Mountford, a finance specialist, is joining the Board of the Housing Finance Corporation and will take over as Chair in June 2007.
Rodney Pitts, a chartered accountant, was selected as the new Chair of LHA-ASRA Group.
Housing and construction consultancy Avebury selected South African expert and UK-respected housing professional Rod MacGillivray, 56, as its new managing director. Mr MacGillivray, who has worked in the UK housing sector for nine years, is well-known in South Africa for heading The New Housing Company - the largest not-for-profit housing company in the 1990s, which challenged the apartheid government by providing affordable homes for low income communities.
Ruth Kelly, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, confirmed the appointment of Judith Armitt, currently Chief Executive of Medway Council, as the new Chief Executive of the Thames Gateway.
Her role will be to provide strong and visible leadership for the Thames Gateway, in particular central and regional government and agency engagement, and support for Local Delivery Vehicles and private sector investors.
Ms Armitt will be responsible for driving the delivery of the Thames Gateway programme and the implementation of the Strategic Framework, incorporating the proposed Economic Development Strategy. She will take on overall responsibility for the DCLG Thames Gateway Strategy and Delivery functions and co-ordination (at official level) of Thames Gateway growth and investment strategies across Government and its partner agencies (English Partnership, the Housing Corporation and Regional Development Agencies).