Professionals from across housing were recognised in the Queen's birthday honours list last weekend
They included William Taylor, the leader of Blackburn with Darwen council, who was made a knight bachelor for services to local government. Sandra Hunt, assistant chief executive of the London borough of Newham, received a CBE and Ellen Easton, leader of Bradford council, received an OBE.

Dickon Robinson, director of development and planning at the Peabody Trust, received a CBE for services to housing. Elizabeth Fulton, chief executive of BIH Housing Association in Northern Ireland, received an OBE, as did: Hattie Llewellyn-Davies, chair of Ridgehill Housing Association in Hertfordshire and the Keep London Working partnership; Anne MacLean, chair of Albyn Housing Society in Scotland and Colin Shaw, former chief executive of Devon & Cornwall Housing Group.

Shaw said: "I have spent my working life in housing, trying to provide good quality affordable homes for local people. There are still large numbers of people in need of a decent home. Housing problems are acute in the South-west, because of low wages and high house prices, and our work goes on."

CBEs were also given to Alan Cherry, chairman of Countryside Properties and the Greenwich Millennium Village, and Charmaine Young, regeneration director at developer St George.

Former Housing Corporation chief David Emmends received a CBE for service to telcommunications regulator Oftel.

And there were MBEs for 10 housing professionals (see "This year's MBEs", right).

This year’s mbes

  • Glenise Burns, scheme manager, Methodist Homes Housing Association, Derby – services to sheltered housing
  • Margaret Deeney, scheme coordinator, Oaklee Housing Association – services to elderly people in Northern Ireland
  • Jacqueline Harris – services to housing and regeneration in Bow, east London
  • Rev Edward Jones – services to race and community relations and asylum seekers
  • Elspeth Jones – services to race and community relations and asylum seekers in Sighthill, Glasgow
  • Henrietta Menice – services to housing in Northern Ireland
  • Ronnie Moodley, chief executive, ARHAG Housing Association – services to refugees
  • Sharon Peters, FCH Housing and Care – services to housing in the West Midlands
  • Suzanne Walsh – services to the homeless in Blackpool
  • Andrew Robinson, head of community development banking, Royal Bank of Scotland – services to social and community enterprise.

Source

Housing Today