DALMUIR PARK Housing Association has announced the appointment of a new chief executive.

Anne Marie Brown will take up her new role in January and described it like a “homecoming” - having been brought up in West Dunbartonshire and then spending most of her working life there.

Anne Marie has been at Craigdale Housing Association in Castlemilk for nearly five and a half years.

Prior to that she spent 20 years at Dunbritton Housing Association in Dumbarton.

Anne Marie said: “I’m delighted to be taking up my new role and look forward to working with the excellent Dalmuir Park team in continuing to take the association forward.

“It is an exciting time to be joining Dalmuir Park as we face the future together with renewed confidence and delivering on the commitments we have made to the community.

“As someone who was born and bred in West Dunbartonshire, it is very much a homecoming for me and I look forward to starting my new role.”

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“I also want to pay tribute to the Staff and Board of Craigdale who do such magnificent work in Castlemilk. It has been a privilege to work with them over the last five and a half years and I wish them well.”

Anne Marie will succeed interim director Catherine Lowe who has been in the post for almost two years.

Welcoming Anne Marie, Gordon Laurie, chair of Dalmuir Park Housing Association, said: “We are looking forward to Anne Marie joining our team as our new leader.

“I believe we are now well-positioned to build on the significant work in the community of Dalmuir. This will ensure that all our tenants and customers have high quality affordable housing and related services in a vibrant local community.”

Dalmuir Park Housing Association was formed in 1977 and registered as a housing association in 1978 to undertake urgent improvements to around 900 tenements in Dalmuir.

It currently owns and manages 689 homes and provides factoring services to 168 owners including 2 sheltered housing complexes and 24 shared ownership homes. It also provides out of school care for up to 100 young people.