Notting Hill Housing Association

Really their board of directors is so fascinating I'm tempted to a do Big Brother style character assassination on every single member. However for the time being the important names to remember are;

• Kate Davies. She was head of housing at Brighton and Hove Council at the time I lived there. As such she had huge influence over the District Judge who played his "I'm not going to bother read the evidence before making my judgement" stunt.

• Paul Hodkingson. The Chairman of the board is the company's link to the construction industry. He has sat on the board of a number of construction firms including the aptly named "Simons Group" who specialise in government contracts for building things like schools and hospitals.

• John Brewster. He is the Crowns man in the company. He lives his life sitting on the boards of various companies that profit exclusively from taxpayers. These include Bromley health authority and Pathway Housing Association which was swallowed up by Notting Hill when Brewster was the CEO. He also sits on the Corporation of London Common Council and attends lots and lots of policy seminars where he has contact with councillors and policy makers from across the UK. He is also the Governor of at least one Croydon school and attends Croydon Parish CoE Church. He is also probably a Freemason.

The National Audit Office's 2007 and report into the company is also very interesting. It criticises the the company for not protecting the health and safety of it's tenants and staff and not meeting the needs of their vunerable tenants. It also describes their staff as having problems keeping promises and points out a need for improvement in the way the company deals with incidents of anti-social behaviour.

Oh and before the BP shareholders get too excited about the news to Horzion leak seemingly being capped they do understand that their liability only ends when the pollutant has been fully removed.


Edited to add @12:06: Another director of the Notting Hill housing association is Gill Golding. One of the other companies she is a director of provides mental health services to Broadmoor secure psychiatric hospital which is home to Peter Sutcliffe. So todays decision from the High Court in the Yorkshire Ripper case garuntess her company about extra £100,000 per year of tax payers money.