About Bill

Councillor Bill Randall (Leader of Brighton & Hove City Council)

Hanover & Elm Grove ward

First elected to Brighton & Hove City Council in May 2003 for Hanover & Elm Grove Ward, Bill is now the Leader of the Council following the Greens' emergence as the largest party at the May 2011 elections. 

When in opposition, Bill also served as the party’s local spokesman on housing.

Bill has also served as Convenor of the Green Group of councillors since May 2009. 

Bill is a trustee of Same Sky, a community arts organisation in the city, and is also a Governor of Elm Grove Primary School.

He chairs the Queen’s Park and Craven Vale Neighbourhood Forum.

In his professional life, Bill is a freelance writer and commentator who has written about housing, community and environmental issues, and the arts for national newspapers and magazines since the 1970s.  He acts as a media advisor to three housing associations outside Brighton & Hove.

Founder editor of Inside Housing, Bill was Housing Journalist of the Year 2000 for his regular column in Rosie Boycott’s Daily Express. He is part of the team that won a national Communications in Business Award 2009 for a report for Nottingham Community Housing Association.

Bill is a former chair of Shelter’s National Housing Aid Trust, and a former board member of:
•    Family Housing Association (London)
•    Shelter’s Public Health Advisory Service
•    Age Concern (Brighton, Hove and Portslade)
•    The Campaign for Bedsit Rights
•    Shelter

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