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Housing Advisory Panel
This panel advises us on housing policy and campaigns.
The Housing Advisory Panel advises us on our policy positions and our consultation responses, campaigns and wider activities on housing. The panel is made up of members from the public, private and academic sectors.
Strategic objectives
We are working with our Housing Advisory Panel on strategic objectives. These will be published once finalised.
Panel members
| Name | Job title | Employer |
|---|---|---|
| Anees Mank | Programme and Policy Lead (Retrofit) | Greater Manchester Combined Authority |
| Carlene M Thomas | Senior Setting the Standards Inspection Officer | London Borough of Ealing - Commissioning Alliance |
| Dick Scott | Housing & Environment Consultant | Monitor BCS UK Ltd |
| Ellis Turner | Senior Lecturer - Environmental Health - Programme Leader Msc Environmental Health | UWE Bristol |
| Henry Dawson | Senior/Principal Lecturer | Cardiff Metropolitan University |
| Ian Higgins | Health & Housing Consultant | The Health and Housing Partnership LLP |
| Ian Sanders | Principal EHO | Hull City Council |
| Jade Carter-Williams | Principal Housing and Health Practitioner | Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea |
| Janet Wade | Environmental Health Officer | London Borough of Camden |
| Jill Stewart | Associate Professor in Public Health | University of Greenwich |
| Jo Smith | Private Sector Housing Manager | Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council |
| Julie Liversidge | Operations Manager (Housing, Licensing & Compliance) | Nottingham City Council |
| Lindsay Shaw | Lecturer in Environmental Health | Ulster University |
| Liza Wheeler | Environmental Health Practitioner | Brighton & Hove City Council |
| Mark Hughes | Retired | Lifeskills charity |
| Michelle Hughes | Investigator | Bristol City Council (NTSELAT) |
| Paul Cowings | Housing enforcement officer (Freelance) | Allerdale Borough Council, Copeland Borough Council and Richmondshire District Council |
| Richard Tacagni | Managing Director | London Property Licensing |
| Zena Lynch | Associate Professor (Hon) | University of Birmingham |
What we're doing
- Written evidence submitted to the Renters' Rights Bill Committee
- CIEH response to DESNZ consultation on the home energy model
- CIEH response to DLUHC consultation on the future homes and buildings standards
- Written evidence submitted to the Renters (Reform) Bill Committee
- CIEH response to DLUHC consultation on a Decent Homes Standard in the private rented sector
- CIEH excess cold enforcement guidance
- A licence to rent
- HHSRS - 11 years on
- Hoarding and how to approach it – guidance for Environmental Health Officers and others
- Residential Inspection Aid: Carbon Monoxide (CO)
- Home adaptations for disabled people
- Effective strategies and interventions: environmental health and the private housing sector
- Guidance on fire safety provisions for certain types of existing housing - update
- Good housing leads to good health - a toolkit for environmental health practitioners
- Guidance for the safe development of housing on land affected by contamination - volume 1
- Guidance on fire safety provisions for certain types of existing housing
What we're saying
- CIEH-backed amendment on licensing to be discussed by MPs scrutinising Renters' Rights Bill
- CIEH expert member highlights key concerns about enforcement and licensing to MPs scrutinising Renters' Rights Bill
- Key CIEH positions on housing enforcement and licensing backed by Renters' Reform Coalition
- CIEH welcomes announcement on energy efficiency
- CIEH welcomes Renters' Rights Bill
- CIEH welcomes Grenfell Tower Inquiry report
- CIEH urges new Government to help councils use licensing schemes to improve housing standards
- CIEH urges MPs to reject amendment that threatens the future of selective licensing
- CIEH concerned about threats to the future of selective licensing
- CIEH welcomes UK Government U-turn on exempting accommodation for asylum seekers from HMO licensing requirements
- CIEH comments on Labour’s commitment to extend ‘Awaab’s Law’
- CIEH publishes written evidence on the Renters (Reform) Bill
- CIEH supports expert member to give oral evidence to MPs on Renters (Reform) Bill
- CIEH backs legal challenge to draft regulations exempting asylum seeker accommodation from HMO licensing requirements
- CIEH welcomes new damp and mould guidance with environmental health input
- CIEH welcomes Renters (Reform) Bill and urges Government to deliver on decent homes
- CIEH member to serve on key government advisory group on damp and mould
- CIEH urges Government to help councils use selective licensing schemes to improve housing conditions
- CIEH deeply saddened by death of Awaab Ishak
Key messages
- CIEH wants to see more awareness and better resourcing of the crucial role played by environmental health professionals in tackling poor housing conditions in all types of tenure and thereby reducing ill health and saving lives.
- CIEH believes that the various housing standards should be consolidated to provide clarity for landlords, tenants and local authorities.
- CIEH welcomes the Renters' Rights Bill but is concerned about the large enforcement burden that the provisions of the Bill will impose on local authorities and the need for proportionate funding that is sustained and predictable.
- CIEH welcomes the proposal in the Bill for a new private rented sector database and is calling for the database to be used as a tool to support the use of licensing schemes by local authorities.
- CIEH believes that licensing provides a means for local authorities to inspect privately rented housing using enforceable conditions and to identify and resolve problems without the need for tenants to have complained.
- CIEH is urging the Government to use the Bill as an opportunity to make it easier for local authorities to use licensing schemes to improve housing standards.
- CIEH believes this could be done by enabling local authorities operating selective licensing schemes to use licence conditions to improve housing conditions, increasing the maximum duration of discretionary licensing schemes from five to ten years and removing the Secretary of State's ability to veto selective licensing schemes covering more than 20% of the local authority area.
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