Project Development Workshop Ltd http://www.pdw-uk.com/blog Project Development Workshop Ltd Thu, 03 May 2012 10:53:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 PDW Welcomes New Director http://www.pdw-uk.com/blog/pdw-welcomes-new-director/ http://www.pdw-uk.com/blog/pdw-welcomes-new-director/#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 10:53:17 +0000 admin http://www.pdw-uk.com/blog/?p=191 John Ghader, who had been seconded to the Tenant Services Authority from his role as Assistant Director at Bradford Council, has joined PDW as Director of Housing & Regulatory Services.

As Director, John will be focusing on growing PDW’s range of Housing and Regulation services to support Registered Providers across the RSL and Local Authority sectors to meet future challenges – not least, the HCA’s revised Economic and Consumer Regulation Standards. The range of services will include, strategy & policy development, business planning, performance management, strategic and operational service reviews, governance, risk management, value for money and resident involvement and scrutiny.

]]> http://www.pdw-uk.com/blog/pdw-welcomes-new-director/feed/ 0 PDW’s New Director of Development Services http://www.pdw-uk.com/blog/pdws-new-director-of-development-services/ http://www.pdw-uk.com/blog/pdws-new-director-of-development-services/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:48:03 +0000 admin http://www.pdw-uk.com/blog/?p=184 We are delighted to announce that Claire Morris (formerly Development Director with Arena Housing Group), has joined us as Director of Development Services.

Claire is a highly experienced development leader with an exceptional reputation for project and programme delivery. Claire will lead our expanding development consultancy services team.

More to follow!

]]> http://www.pdw-uk.com/blog/pdws-new-director-of-development-services/feed/ 0 PDW welcomes another new associate! http://www.pdw-uk.com/blog/pdw-welcomes-another-new-associate/ http://www.pdw-uk.com/blog/pdw-welcomes-another-new-associate/#comments Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:20:46 +0000 admin http://www.pdw-uk.com/blog/?p=177 PDW would like to welcome Patricia Baylis as an Associate Consultant.

Patricia has spent 20 years working in development, housing and regeneration in the public and independent sectors; she has a very wide range of experience of development and regeneration initiatives with social landlords, local authorities, developers and government bodies.  Patricia has particular experience of project and programme management, project appraisals, funding bids, development option appraisals, financial modelling and control, development procedure and audit control, and extra care and special needs housing.

Patricia’s first degree was in planning, she is a qualified surveyor and is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Housing.

]]> http://www.pdw-uk.com/blog/pdw-welcomes-another-new-associate/feed/ 0 WPH recommends PDW DPM! http://www.pdw-uk.com/blog/wph-recommends-pdw-dpm/ http://www.pdw-uk.com/blog/wph-recommends-pdw-dpm/#comments Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:17:15 +0000 admin http://www.pdw-uk.com/blog/?p=170 ‘We are a newly established development team at Wirral Partnership Homes. Being able to purchase an off the shelf Development Procedure Manual, which we have then tweaked to meet our specific needs, has been a very useful and practical way of introducing comprehensive procedures into the department very quickly. I can highly recommend it.’

]]> http://www.pdw-uk.com/blog/wph-recommends-pdw-dpm/feed/ 0 PDW welcomes new associate! http://www.pdw-uk.com/blog/pdw-welcomes-new-associate/ http://www.pdw-uk.com/blog/pdw-welcomes-new-associate/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:34:45 +0000 admin http://www.pdw-uk.com/blog/?p=167 PDW would like to welcome Jean Bray as an Associate Consultant.

Jean is highly experienced in extra care housing and sheltered housing management gained at one of the UK’s largest housing and care organisations for older people, where she directed and controlled services to over 75 sheltered schemes providing 2,400 units of accommodation, with operational budgets in excess of £2.5m.

From March 2003 to April 2004 Jean led a national project team to implement and manage the new Supporting People regime as it was introduced.

Working as an Associate Consultant since April 2004, Jeans portfolio has included project managing successful bids for funding from the DH Extra Care Grant for Bolton and Cumbria CC as well as acting as a critical friend on two other successful bids.  Other assignments have included interim management of sheltered and supported housing, the development of an older people’s housing strategy, design and development support for extra care housing  and more recently working on both supporting people and telecare tenders.

Jean is currently the joint North West regional lead for the Housing LIN.

]]> http://www.pdw-uk.com/blog/pdw-welcomes-new-associate/feed/ 0 Development Procedure Manual http://www.pdw-uk.com/blog/development-procedure-manual/ http://www.pdw-uk.com/blog/development-procedure-manual/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:31:31 +0000 admin http://www.pdw-uk.com/blog/?p=164 We have just completed a comprehensive and current Development Procedure Manual for a Registered Housing Provider client.  This is the latest and best version of a manual we have produced. We are confident that this new manual is an excellent tool for development staff at all levels within developing housing organisations. We offer this manual tailored to suit any organisation in a range of formats, including an electronic format, which is very easy to navigate through the procedures and standard documentation.

We also offer a regular update and review service for all our clients.

We are happy to present an example of this manual to anyone interested.  Please ring 0870 757 0990 for further information.

]]> http://www.pdw-uk.com/blog/development-procedure-manual/feed/ 0 Naughton Fields, Widnes http://www.pdw-uk.com/blog/naughton-fields-widnes/ http://www.pdw-uk.com/blog/naughton-fields-widnes/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:09:59 +0000 admin http://www.pdw-uk.com/blog/?p=158 Through our expanding associate network we are now delivering additional management and care policy support services for an extra care housing project in Widnes.  We are assisting with staffing structures, contract negotiations, SP advice, service charge policy and general management issues within the extra care scheme known as ‘Naughton Fields’.  This is an exciting, mixed tenure, extra care project for Halton Housing Trust.

Please contact us on 0870 757 0990 if you would like further details of the project and/or services we are offering.

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If you are interested in applying for this role and would like more information then please contact us.

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The day was very well received and we thoroughly enjoyed meeting the client team and discussing their development and investment issues.

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