Housing Trust Chair Resigns
Chester & District Housing Trust will shortly begin a process of recruiting a new Chair following the resignation of Andrew Grime who has held the position since September 2006.
Mr Grime, who first joined the Trust in 2003 and was appointed to the Board in 2004, headed up the Board of the Housing Trust during its period of major restructure and improvement, including the achievement of its “two stars with excellent prospects’ grading awarded by the Audit Commission in March 2007 and the progression of a major housing development for the Trust at Treborth Road. In addition, the Trust was awarded “green lights’ by the Housing Corporation reflecting the high standards of governance provided by the Board.
Rob Thompson, Deputy Chair at the Trust, said: “Andrew has given up a considerable amount of his time over the past few years and has been instrumental to our success and improvement. As Deputy Chair and on behalf of the Board I must express my sincere gratitude to Andrew for his service over more than four years.”
Andrew Grime commented: “CDHT has achieved so much in the past few years and I will always be proud to have been a part of its recovery. I wish the Trust well for the future.”
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Chester & District Housing Trust (CDHT) was created in November 2000 to acquire the housing stock of Chester District Council and now owns and manages over 6,200 properties in and around Chester, employing 275 staff. The Trust’s homes fall in to six neighbourhoods – Blacon North; Blacon South; Chester City Area; The Rurals; Lache and Handbridge; Upton, Hoole, Newton and Plas Newton.
CDHT provides a range of services to tenants and residents in Chester and surrounding areas. These include ChesterCare, a community alarm service for CDHT tenants, other association tenants and private customers and also the specially designated Community Intervention Budget. This improves facilities and allows changes which are felt buy tenants to be vital to their community. CDHT also manages the housing waiting list and homelessness agency service on behalf of Chester City Council.
Current projects for CDHT include the £12million regeneration of the Treborth Road area of Chester, to include 200 new homes for rent, sale and shared ownership, as well as a village green and wildlife habitats.
For more details please visit www.cdht.net
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