Cathy McCarthy has been appointed as Housing Director to replace Deborah White, who retires at the end of the month.

She was recruited following an open and rigorous recruitment process that involved staff, board members and residents.

Cathy is currently Interim National Head of Housing at Centrepoint and has held previous Director roles at Southern Housing group and Origin Housing.

Cathy says 'I am so pleased to be joining West Kent, especially at such an exciting time of change. I am really looking forward to working with residents and colleagues on delivering our objectives and providing a great service.' 

Cathy starts on 11 November.

New Housing Director Cathy McCarthy

 

3 October 2019

Staff training - Tuesday 1 April

Our customer services team will not be available from 8am to 1pm tomorrow, 1 April 2025, due to staff training. Our out of hours provider will take any emergency calls during this time. If you have an emergency, please call 0800 169 1122 as usual.

 

West Kent progresses the development of the new Woodland Place community, set to provide 106 new homes

Woodland Place is the newly branded scheme in Allington, Maidstone, and sits on the land known as Castor Park. The new development is currently in construction and is set to provide over 100 new homes for with a mix of social rent, affordable rent and shared ownership tenures.