The Home's & Communities Executive Director for the North West has been selected to act as Chief Executive of Manchester Place, to help speed up housing growth in the city.

Deborah McLaughlin will begin her role in February 2015 for a 12 month period.

Karl Tupling, the HCA's Head of Strategy and Performance for the North East, Yorkshire and The Humber, will take over her responsibilities during this period.

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Manchester Place is a collaboration between Manchester city council and the HCA. It was launched in July with the aim of creating a pipeline of development ready sites to help the city meet its target of creating 55,000 new homes by 2027.

Deborah worked on its set up and has overseen a joint programme board for the past 12 months. The 2 organisations have now agreed the secondment to kick start delivery of the initial schemes.

(CD/MH)