Home Builders Federation deputy chairman Peter Andrew has been awarded an MBE in the New Year’s honours list for “services to the construction industry”.
Reacting to the award Andrew said: “I am surprised and extremely honoured to be awarded an MBE for my many years in the industry and particularly for the recognition of my part in the team that produced the National Planning Policy Framework.”
Andrew started life as a company trainee quantity surveyor at George Wimpey and progressed to become the UK land and planning director and a board member at national housebuilder Taylor Wimpey. He was one of the four practitioners who helped draft the National Planning Policy Framework for then planning minister Greg Clark.
Other honours in the housing industry include CBEs for Jo Boaden, chief executive of the Northern Housing Consortium in Newcastle, Stephen Howlett, the former chief executive of Peabody, and Andrew Robertson chair of the LAR Housing Trust in Scotland.
Marc Vlessing, chief executive of Pocket, which has developed compact homes for sale to middle-income Londoners, receives an OBE while Jane Clarke, the former chief executive of the Churches housing association for Dudley and District, is awarded the MBE.
