Redress scheme to reveal industry names joining Advisory Panel
PRS boss Tim Frome says its time to 'refresh and re-energise' the scheme with new faces on its panel advising on technical and wider issues.
Lord Monroe Palmer of Childs Hill (pictured, middle), Chair of the Advisory Panel of the industry redress scheme the PRS, is to meet with seniors from the organisation on the 29th September to pick its new members as the organisation’s Advisory Council evolves into an Advisory Panel.
Head of Redress Sean Hooker (pictured, right) and MD Tim Frome (pictured, left) will be meeting with the peer to pick 15 people who will sit on the Panel following applications from over 50 individuals.
These have included sales and letting agents, landlords, software suppliers and a range of other representatives from the property industry.
“We are also seeking to include a tenant representative on the Panel,” says Frome.
Following the 29th September meeting, which has been pushed forward following the death of Her Majesty The Queen, the members of the Panel will be revealed a few weeks later.
“We always had an Advisory Council, but this has now evolved into an Advisory Panel as part of our efforts to freshen up the PRS governance, re-focus its activities and overall re-energise the organisation,” says Frome.
Upheavals
Hooker says the change was prompted in part by several members who had served since 2014 moving on but also the upheavals of Covid and the growth of the PRS to some 17,000 members.
Former independent members of its council have included Paul Shamplina (pictured) of Landlord Action, David Westgate (now CEO of estate agency Andrews), Nick Lyons of No Letting Go, Richard Price (UKALA) and leading property law figure Tessa Shepperson.
The PRS will also soon be seeking to establish a separate advisory panel for its agency members “to promote direct engagement between the scheme and industry and enable us to fully understand the challenges our members face”.
“Both panels will be open and transparent, and we welcome challenge and robust scrutiny and there will mechanisms to refresh and replace members appropriately,” says Hooker.