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John Bloxsom Project Manager
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John Bloxsom is a housing professional with wide ranging experience in housing strategy and development, community housing, and project and programme management.
John is an independent practitioner and former Head of Housing at Local Authorities. He has supported housing partnerships, development programmes and neighbourhood plans. John is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Housing, a qualified project manager and he holds a Masters in Business Administration. He is a Vice Chair of Two Rivers Housing Ltd and a co-opted Board Member of a Community Land Trust in Gloucestershire. John is committed to the development of affordable housing and has a passion for the not for profit sector and community engagement.
Dr Sue Brownill
Chair
Sue Brownill is a Reader in Urban Policy and Governance at Oxford Brookes University, whose research and teaching interests focus on the interaction of communities with urban planning and regeneration. Sue has been a board member of Oxford Citizens Housing Association since 2003 and before moving to Oxford worked with community organisations in London's Docklands.
Charlie Fisher
Exec Team
Charlie joined OCLT as Project Manager in July 2014 and since finishing this role has continued to participate as an executive director attending regular executive meetings to keep things going. Charlie trained as an architect specialising in Development and Emergency practice and is now doing a PhD on affordable housing delivery models at Oxford Brookes. His experiences of working for local architecture practice Transition by Design, his passion for housing issues, residential design and participatory techniques, together with his growing expertise in affordable housing, make him an invaluable member of the Board.
Fran Ryan
Secretary, Attends Exec Team, Attends Board Meetings
Fran is a freelance Chartered Occupational Psychologist and works part time in Human Resources in the private and public sectors. She has previously had 13 years management experience in financial services. Although not a housing pofessional by background has developed considerable expertise in alternative approaches to affordable housing provision and is passionate about avoiding Right to Buy in order to retain permanent affordability.
Deborah Glass Woodin
Exec Team
Deborah is a community activist and has joined the Board for one year from January 2017 to support the success of the Irving Building Project. She has been a prime mover in this. Deborah first trained as an occupational therapist in Oxford in the early 80s, then worked and campaigned in the Middle East. She returned to Oxford in 1992, becoming a City and then a County Councillor. Apart from her interest in addressing the challenges of housing in Oxford (through co-housing and Homes for Oxford) she is part of Oxford GreenPrint workers co-op, is a founder member/manager of South Oxford Farmers and Community Market and is working to set up a local micro-dairy. She is a widow and the mother of two teenagers and has lived in South Oxford for 23 years.
Ron Gibbons
Exec Team
Ron Gibbons is an architect by training and has over 30 years' experience in Master Planning and Urban Design living and practicing in the UK, US and Japan. He has specialised in residential design, from one-off residences through urban regeneration to the design and development of complete new communities. Ron considers the delivery of exciting, efficient yet environmentally conscious housing to be the greatest challenge in the UK, and has worked over the last 10 years with both the DCLG and the HCA to help facilitate its growth. He is a leading expert on Custom Build Housing and is a Director of Urban Selfbuild Ltd which was one of the first developer companies in the UK to receive government loan funding to help deliver a new type of housing model in the UK.
Bob Colenutt
Non-Exec Director
Bob is a housing and planning researcher with a career in community planning and local government regeneration. He was involved in the campaigns which led to the community-led Coin Street housing development on the South Bank in London. Recently he has been undertaking research into housing supply and volume house building in London and the South-East of England. He has lived in Oxford for the past 8 years
Larry Sanders
Non-Exec Director
Larry was a county councillor for four years and was the Leader of the Green Group on Oxfordshire County Council. He has used his position to bring Land Trusts into discussion, particularly in meeting the increasing need for accommodation for Older People.
He sees that community land trusts tackle two of the major issues of our time: the need for homes at a price that most people can afford and the building of community. He is a trained lawyer and social worker. He has been a university lecturer in Social Work and Social and Health Care Law.
Jock Coats
Treasurer, Co-opted Member
Jock’s first career was on the Stock Exchange culminating in private client equities portfolio management. He now iworks in IT support and development, moving to Oxford in 1993 and to Oxford Brookes University in 1996.
Jock served on the City Council for three years up till 2002 and with Fran was a founder member of OCLT in 2003. He has been a governor of Oxford Brookes University, chair of the Oxfordshire Social Enterprise Forum and a director of Social Enterprise South East (SE2 Partnership). He has just completed his first degree (and got a first) in Economics and Politics.
Vyv Salmon
Co-opted Member
Vyvyan lives and works in Oxford and has over 40 years’ experience in managing residential and small scale commercial property. He is currently self employed managing a small residential property portfolio. He has extensive knowledge of town planning having been a lecturer in Economics for Estate Management and Town Planning students at Oxford Brookes University 1973 to 1989.
He has extensive director experience as a Board Member and is currently a Board Member of South West Foundation, and The Old Bakehouse Trust Co-operatively managed workspaces.