PHA board members

Chair of PHA

Independent board member since June 2009.

Membership - PHA Review Committee and Group Treasury and Audit Committees.

Alan is the former Chief Executive of Cornwall Marine Network and currently operates a business management consultancy, specialising in taxation and marine issues, and is closely involved with partners in projects working towards a low carbon economy for Cornwall. A past Chair of the Board of Kerrier & the Fal Credit Union, he has been a Trustee of Penwith Community Development Trust for the past five years and is also Chair of Hayle Runners and of ILCM, a Community Interest Company, which not only serves Cornwall but works with the community and voluntary sector throughout the UK.

Gail Hunt

Vice-Chair of PHA

Independent Board member of PHA since 2002.

Membership - Board member of DCHT, Group Nominations Committee, Group Remuneration Committee, Group Audit Committee, PHA Review Committee.

Gail is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. She currently advises groups and agencies working with people with a learning disability and is also treasurer of Cornwall Advocacy and treasurer of The Lescudjack Centre. Previous experience was as finance director of a charity for 10 years, which became an RSL, housing and supporting homeless people, and has extensive knowledge of the building and property market.

Ian Dunn

Tenant Board member of PHA since 2011.
Ian Dunn has served on the Regional Committee and various groups with Devon & Cornwall Housing. Ian has also been a member of the Peninsula Tenants' Committee and Constitution & Management sub-group. Ian is chair of the West Area Liaison Panel and has been taking part in the Active Learning for Residents programme.

Melville Durrant

Tenant Board member of PHA since 2011.

Melville Durrant worked in the building and civil engineering industry before he had to give it up due to an injury and ill health. Melville has worked in the voluntary sector for a number of years and has sat on several boards; he has also chaired several committees in that time. Melville is keen to save open spaces and strives to help tenants to the best of his ability. He is eager for all tenants to be involved in future decision making.

Chris Goninan

Council board member since 2010

Chris is a Cornwall Councillor for the St Just Electoral Division and is chairman of Penwith 50+ Forum and the Board of Directors of Penwith Radio Station. He is also a Trustee of St Just and District Community Sports Association and secretary of St Just Cricket Club. Before he retired he was a teacher at Humphry Davy Grammar School for Boys and Cape Cornwall Comprehensive School.

Clive Harrold

Independent board member of PHA since 2002.

Membership - Chair of PHA Review Committee and member of Group Audit Committee.

Clive is the former Head of Finance for the Penwith Community Development Trust where he worked for 10 years up to his retirement in 2010. Prior to this, Clive spent 12 years as Assistant Director of Central Services and Chief Internal Auditor with the former Penwith District Council. Clive has worked as a volunteer with Penwith Gateway Club since 1991 and has been chairman since 1999. Clive is a Trustee of Penwith District Mencap Society and of Penwith Volunteer Bureau. He has also recently taken on the role of Treasurer and Board member for Bosence Farm Community Ltd where he also chairs the Finance & General Purposes Sub-Committee.

Nadia Hewitt

Independent board member of PHA since 2011

Membership - PHA Review Committee

Previously a DCHA Board member since 2006, Board member of DCLS and I-Futures, and a member of the Cornwall Regional Committee. Nadia trained as a social worker in the 1980s and has worked continuously in Cornwall, in health, social services and housing, in statutory and voluntary sectors.

Eric Parton

Independent board member of PHA since 2011

Pre Local Government reorganisation in 1974, Eric Parton worked for Salford City Council in the Housing & Technical Dept.In April 1974 Eric took up the post of tenancy relations officer in Penwith District Council’s Housing Dept.In 1981 Eric became Senior Management Officer responsible for the housing waiting list, lettings, disabled adaptations and homelessness.When the housing stock transferred to PHA, Eric became the Council’s Principal Housing Officer, responsible for the Council’s housing strategy, homelessness and liaison with all housing associations and the Government Office South West on matters relating to housing investment, until he retired in 2003.

Beth Semmons

Tenant board member since 2008.

Membership - PHA Review Committee.

Beth has been on the DCHA regional committee for nine years and TAPS before that. Chair of her local residents' association and an active worker in the community, Beth is also a founder member of CN4C and has been a member of its board since inception and is now Chair. A single parent of two and a grandparent, Beth was a secondary school teacher until forced to retire through disablement. Beth feels that through life's experiences she has come to understand many of the problems facing our tenants and hopes to represent them as well as she can.

Paul Williams

Tenant board member of PHA since 2011.

Paul Williams is an active member of the community. A former coach, bus and truck driver, Paul is now retired through ill-health which releases him to spend more time on his volunteer pursuits, tenant issues. Paul's hobbies are singing with the local choir and performing for charity with the Strumalongers.