Catrina is in the housing hotseat

Ferguslie Park Housing Association has appointed its new group chief executive.

The Paisley association named Catrina Miller as its new boss after an extensive recruitment process.

She joins from Arklet Housing Association in Glasgow where she has held several roles including, latterly, as interim director.

With 20 years’ experience in social housing, Ms Miller takes over at the from outgoing interim chief executive Lynn McCulloch at a time of significant rejuvenation and investment in the housing stock and improved services for its tenants.

FPHA’s Tannahill Centre, which aims to put itself at the heart of the Ferguslie Park community, has also seen a resurgence in the past 18 months or so, with a huge increase in local people using its facilities.

Ms Miller said: “I’m greatly looking forward to working with the people of Ferguslie Park and to helping them achieve their ambitions for the community.

“The next chapter of the Ferguslie Park story is helping our community to realise its potential.

“Its people have high ambitions for the community and for themselves. I want to support and enable these extraordinary residents and to help them achieve and receive everything they would like from their own housing and community services.”

The association had been placed under special measures by the housing watchdog in 2016, after problems in the financial ma n a g e m e n t w e r e uncovered. The measures, which included appointing independent managers and board members, were scaled back in January after imrpovements.