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Stewart Baseley - Executive Chairman
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Stewart Baseley has been on the board of HBF since 2002, serving as its Chairman since April 2004. He led a strategic review of HBF to ensure that the Federation is well placed to both influence the ever expanding external agenda and promote exemplary levels of service to its members. In late 2005 Stewart increased his commitment to HBF and became Executive Chairman. He is Chairman of the Housebuilder Media Limited and a member of the board of the National House Building Council, Banner Homes and Habitat for Humanity. He is also a consultant to the Highlander Partners (Central Europe) L.P.
Stewart began his housebuilding career with Crest Nicholson in 1983 before moving to Charles Church, where he became CEO in 1990, a position he held for eight years. During that time he oversaw the sale of Charles Church to Beazer Group in 1996 and subsequently joined the Beazer PLC Board where he had additional responsibility for Beazer Strategic Land. In 1998 he became Chairman and CEO of Centex UK which in 1999 acquired Fairclough Homes. In 2005 he oversaw the sale of Centex UK to Miller Group.
John Stewart - Director of Economic Affairs
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John Stewart is Director of Economic Affairs at the Home Builders Federation (HBF) and edits the monthly Housing Market Report.
He was Barker Review project coordinator for HBF and a Consultant for the Callcutt Review. His policy responsibilities include the economy, the housing and mortgage markets, demographic trends, housing supply, new home valuation, the private rented sector, customer satisfaction and the industry's Consumer Code, the cumulative impact of regulation on housing viability and supply, and HCA initiatives (HomeBuy Direct, Kickstart, etc). He manages HBF's trends surveys and compiles a regional housing affordability index. His recent report, Preparing for the Recovery, identified the key barriers to a recovery in home building.
Before joining HBF in 2003 he was an independent consultant for over ten years, and previously divisional Sales & Marketing Director for house builder Wates.
His publications included a monthly Viewpoint column in Housebuilder and Building a Crisis (2002), the first report to highlight the growing housing supply crisis in England and to begin examining its social and economic consequences.
John Slaughter - Director of External Affairs
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John Slaughter is Director of External Affairs for the Home Builders Federation - the trade association representing private sector house builders in England and Wales.
John joined HBF in March 2003, having previously worked as a corporate adviser in the upstream oil and gas industry. Before working in the oil and gas industry he was a senior civil servant in the Department of Trade and Industry, where he worked on a range of domestic and international issues including the negotiation of major European legislation and international agreements for the UK Government.
John has a general representational role at HBF covering a wide range of policy issues at both national and regional level and political liaison. He has particular policy responsibility for HBF's work on careers, skills and design issues and has also been involved for HBF in major discussions on urban regeneration, sustainable development and the zero carbon homes objective.
Dave Mitchell - Technical Director
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Having started his career in the building industry back in 1969, Dave spent some 30 years working for a medium size house builder in the south-east of England. For most of this time he dealt with housing design and the regulatory side of the industry.
Since joining the HBF as Technical Director in June 2005 he has been heavily involved in promoting a better understanding of the technical Issues facing house builders in the 21st century, particularly in the zero carbon and sustainability arena. In September 2006 Dave was appointed a member of BRAC.
Andrew Whitaker - Head of Planning
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Andrew, who joined the Federation as a regional officer in 1994, has over 25 years experience as a town planner in both the public and private sector, specialising in the formulation and implementation of both planning and housing policy.
He started his career in his home town in East Hertfordshire and moved to North East Hampshire before 5 years in a multidisciplinary architectural/ planning firm in Reading. A brief spell back in an Oxfordshire local authority merely strengthened his resolve to return to the private sector and he has been at the HBF ever since.
The Home Builders Federation is the principal trade federation for private sector housebuilders in England and Wales. Its members range from very large, international companies through medium sized to small, local companies. These members account for approximately 80% of all new houses built in England and Wales in any one year
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