25 February 2010
Hastoe Group, which has regional bases in the East, South and West has been shortlisted from more than 300 entries to the 2010 Housing Heroes Awards. The housing association’s development team is one of six left in the running for Development Team of the Year 2009.
The event is organised by Inside Housing magazine and the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH), and attracted a phenomenal response with submissions from the length and breadth of the UK. These awards are in their second year and shine the spotlight on the people and teams that are doing great work in the affordable housing sector.
The awards are sponsored by Campbell Tickell, EMA, Asset Skills, Synergy Group and The Hire Standard. Last year more than 700 people attended the Awards Ceremony which will be held on 14 May and hosted by TV presenter, Antarctic explorer and Atlantic rower Ben Fogle.
Sue Chalkley, Chief Executive of Hastoe Group said: “I am thrilled for the team as they have done an outstanding job this year. Despite the difficult economic conditions they have exceeded our original targets and the result, we completed twice as many vital rural homes in 2009 compared to the year before."
Business Development Director, Kevin Hartnett, added: “The team exemplifies our focus on rural communities, innovation in housing and environmental sustainability. Many of our developments are on sites which require sensitive approaches and our development team is particularly adept at this.”
Howard Farrand, the President of the CIH said he was amazed by the fantastic people working in the housing sector: “Our sector spends a great deal of time talking about policy and strategy, business plans and budgets, our visions and our mission statements. Of course all of these things are really important. But in my experience it is the extraordinary people that do fantastic work for our customers that make the real difference. So I want to congratulate every finalist for getting this far in these awards. It was extremely tightly contested, and I look forward to helping to unveil the eventual winners in May.”
Inside Housing’s events director Ted Stevens said: “All the finalists have done brilliantly in getting this far. Well done to Hastoe for getting shortlisted. The competition was really fierce with more than 40 entries in some categories.”
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For more information please contact: Rebecca Beaumont on 020 8973 0437 or
rbeaumont@hastoe.com.
The submission from Hastoe included a focus on its developments in West Dean, West Sussex, Sedgeford, Norfolk and Brayford, Devon.