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Chris Ward
Software firm IBS has appointed Chris Ward business development manager for the Midlands and Wales. He will provide customer service and new business development for the local authorities and housing associations in the region, working across the firm's full range of housing revenue and finance software. He previously worked in public sector procurement as development manager for computer firm Cedar.

Simon Inkson
Simon Inkson, head of housing strategy at Torfaen council, is leaving to set up a housing policy consultancy. He has worked for the council for the past four years and was previously policy and programmes manager with Swansea council.

SLFHA
SLFHA, part of Horizon Housing Group, has a new management team. Clive Coley is chief executive, Chris Luswata is head of finance, Tricia Durkan is operations director, Kevin Hazlewood is investment and procurement director and Steve Woodcock is business support and communications director.

Mark Gibson
Mark Gibson has joined the Chartered Institute of Housing as a policy officer. He will work on a wide range of policy issues and will also work with the CIH regional policy committees in London and the South-east.

He moves from Town and Country Housing Group, where he was a development officer in the new business team.

Gibson will complete a masters degree in housing from the University of Westminster this month.

Taylor Woodrow
Property firm Taylor Woodrow has appointed Keith Parrett managing director for its London region. He joins from Bellway Homes in the east Midlands, where he was managing director.

Meanwhile John Inglis, sales and marketing manager for the eastern region, has moved to the London office to take up a similar role.

Willmott Dixon
Willmott Dixon Housing has announced three staff appointments. Doug Botley has been made contracts manager at the company's Circle 33 Projects operation in London.

Meanwhile Phil Lewis and Steve Skuse have joined as heads of design. Lewis and Skuse both have extensive track records in architecture and private development.

Kim Brookes
Insurance and risk management firm Letsure has appointed Kim Brookes project manager. She has worked in residential letting for nearly 20 years, with four of them spent at Letsure.

Gareth Lewis
Gareth Lewis, chief executive of consultancy Avebury Projects, has joined Orbit Housing Group as interim business development director for six months.