Category: People

Mr Peter Hoey

Mr Peter Hoey
Trustee

Peter Hoey has worked as a Building Conservation Officer for over 30 years. During that time Peter has provided conservation advice for four local authorities, Wrekin, Knowsley Metropolitan Borough, Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council and Liverpool City Council. At Liverpool, this included managing grants for the regeneration of Ropewalks buildings and buildings at risk. Peter has been a member of the historic Churches Committee advising the catholic dioceses of Liverpool, Shrewsbury, Salford and Lancaster and is a full member of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation and the Royal Town Planning Institute.

Mr David Levitt

Mr David Levitt
Trustee

David is a native of Liverpool, currently living with his wife in a Liverpool Grade II listed building. Educated at John Moores University with a degree in Town & Country Planning. and whilst working briefly as a trainee at the planning department of the London Borough of Lambeth, he has spent the last 48 years in the commercial world of magazine publishing and conference organizing being a director of his own company.

David has maintained a lifelong interest in both the natural and built environment with a particular appreciation of buildings with a historical and architectural heritage and the need for preservation and restoration where appropriate and is a member of English Heritage and the National Trust.

Mr CD Green

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Mr CD Green
Trustee

Colin graduated from Liverpool Polytechnic in 1983 with a degree in Urban Estate Management and commenced what was to be a long career in property management and development with Liverpool City Council. He qualified as a Chartered Surveyor in 1986. During his time at the Council, he worked on a range of property related matters including management acquisitions, disposals and latterly regeneration and development.

He managed the Project Jennifer scheme in north Liverpool almost from its inception to its eventual completion 14 years later having steered it through legal challenges, a public inquiry and the 2007 financial crisis. Other projects Colin has been involved in include the Liverpool International Garden Festival site, the regeneration of the former ‘Boot Estate’ in Norris Green and new industrial development at Stonebridge Business Park on the East Lancs Road. Colin took early retirement from the Council in February 2017.

Mr S Power

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Mr S Power
Chair

Steve was educated in Liverpool and has a Town Planning Degree and Postgraduate Diploma from the Liverpool Polytechnic School of Architecture and Town Planning, and an MBA from Liverpool University. Steve has 40 years of regeneration experience in management and delivery roles in Metropolitan Councils/public-private partnerships, and private sector consultancy.

Following three years in London, in the mid-80s, he worked in Merseyside for Knowsley Council, leading on town centre regeneration projects, and Bootle Maritime City Challenge including the expansion of Liverpool Freeport with Mersey Docks.

Steve was also Development Director for the Ropewalks Partnership Initiative delivering key projects such as FACT, Tea Factory, Campbell Square and the Chinese Arch in the Ropewalks area of Liverpool.

More recently Steve has worked for Liverpool City Council as Assistant Director for Housing Development, securing the City’s Strategic Housing Partner and the City’s Affordable Housing Programme. Also working in private consultancy, Steve has been involved in delivering regeneration projects for Liverpool, Anglesey, Conwy, and latterly Oldham Councils. Steve has also lectured at Liverpool John Moores University in Commercial Property Development. Steve has recently retired as Strategic Lead for Regeneration and Development at Sefton Council.

Professor J Belchem

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Professor J Belchem
Trustee

John is a former Professor of History at the University of Liverpool where he taught from 1980, roles also included Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and Pro-Vice Chancellor. John has published extensively on modern British social and political history, Irish immigration and ethnicity. John edited the Liverpool 800 published by the University of Liverpool press, also Merseyside: Essays in Exceptionalism, and Irish, Catholic and Scouse. His latest book, co-edited with Bryan Biggs, examines the transformation of the Bluecoat, the oldest building in Liverpool City Centre, into the UK’s first Arts Centre.

Miss HE Summers

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Miss HE Summers
Trustee

A Solicitor at Excello Law in Liverpool. Alongside work in the corporate and commercial law sector, Heather has experience of all aspects of commercial property and charity law having acted for numerous charitable organisations on a local and national level during her career. She has led, on a number of occasions, major capital projects involving her various disciplines. As a Board Member of Merseyside Buildings Preservation Trust, Heather was one of the team that started The Florence Institute project, and advised on all legal aspects of the capital project including co-ordination of the property acquisition, implementing the complex VAT consultant’s advice on user and occupations. Heather has also seen the Welsh Presbyterian Church project through from board discussion, acquisition, VAT advice to current position on funding.

Professor S Holloway

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Professor S Holloway
Trustee

Stephen graduated from Leicester University with a PhD in Theoretical Solid-State Physics in 1976, working in the field of gas-surface dynamics. He spent six years in continental Europe working in universities in Berlin, Copenhagen and Gothenburg. He joined the University of Liverpool in 1984 as a lecturer in the Department of Chemistry under the direction of Sir David King. He was part of the team that founded the UK Surface Science Centre of Excellence in 1988 and was their Head of Theory until 2000. Stephen’s activities in the university were split equally into two parts – undertaking scientific research and teaching as his primary activities from 1984 until 2000 when he became Head of the Chemistry Department. Stephen also served in this management role for seven years after which he became (in succession) the Dean of Science (2007), the Dean of Science and Engineering (2008), The Executive Pro-Vice Chancellor (2012) and finally the Provost (2013). He retired from the university in 2015.

Mr JR Flamson

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Mr JR Flamson
OBE DL
Trustee

John was one of the senior directors of the University of Liverpool from 2008, linking it with international, political and business market places. He has BA (Honours) Geography and Master of Civic Design degrees and is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and a Retired Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute. He started his professional life as a town planner, and his planning career included numerous posts with West Lancashire District Council, Merseyside County Council, Liverpool City Council and Merseyside Development Corporation, involving him in numerous regeneration initiatives in testing political and economic environments in the 1970s and 1980s.

During his time with Merseyside Development Corporation, he contributed to the re-emergence of the Merseyside waterfronts as commercial and visitor destinations, including iconic developments at Albert Dock and the International Garden Festival. His work in the 1980s was focused on city centre development, economic growth and public policy, as Director of Liverpool City Challenge, and Chief Executive of Wigan Borough Partnership. As a Deputy Regional Director of Government Office for the North West, John oversaw the huge European Investments into Merseyside from 2000, which continue to have a significant impact on the renaissance of the region.

Since retirement he has remained active as an Honorary Fellow of the University of Liverpool’s Heseltine Institute of Public Policy, Practice & Place, a Member of the Investment Panel for Liverpool City Region’s Combined Authority and as a Deputy Lieutenant in the County of Merseyside, all of which keeps him engaged in the area’s civic life.

Mr SG Humphreys

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Mr SG Humphreys
Trustee

Simon is a Development Director at Urban Splash. He is based in the company’s Liverpool office and is responsible for the delivery of projects across the Merseyside region and beyond. Simon is also Head of Product Design with Urban Splash’s housing business which is delivering hundreds of modular new-build housing units across the country, this involves working with many talented architects to redefine how new homes are designed, marketed, sold and built.

Simon originally joined Urban Splash in 1996, having worked for Shed Architects on the first Urban Splash residential scheme in Manchester, Sally’s Yard, on a year out as an architecture student from Liverpool John Moores University. Simon was a Lead Designer at Urban Splash responsible for a number of award-winning projects including Britannia Mills and Box Works in Manchester. He joined the development team in 2001 and has been involved in a wide range of activities from bid management to the delivery of projects.

Dr P Jones

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Dr P Jones
MRICS
External Advisor / Company Secretary

Paul graduated from UMIST, Manchester in 1998 having successfully completed an MSc in Property Investment and Development, and has been a member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors since 2004. Since 2001, Paul has worked in the field of urban regeneration and development, acting as the Development Manager on urban heritage regeneration projects including the iconic Midland Hotel in Morecambe, Stubbs Mill and Beehive Mill in Manchester, and Park Hill in Sheffield.

After many happy years working in the private sector, Paul recently set up Jones URC, to act in an advisory and delivery capacity on all aspects of community focused urban regeneration projects to the public sector, and not-for-profit organisations. In 2022 Paul was appointed Company Secretary of the Merseyside Buildings Preservation Trust in order to advise and assist the Trust with progression of not-for-profit urban heritage regeneration projects. In August 2024, Paul was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of the Baltic Creative Community Interest Company.

In 2017, Paul was awarded a Doctorate in the Built Environment by the University of Salford where the area of research focus was urban heritage regeneration. Paul is also working, on a mostly full-time basis, lecturing at the University of Salford, within the School of Science, Engineering and the Environment. Specialist areas of research and study include Conservation, Urban Heritage Regeneration and Adaptive Reuse, Planning, and lowering the Environmental Impact of Real Estate Activity.