Bill Randall biography

Councillor Bill Randall

Bill has been Convenor of the Green Group of councillors since May.  First elected to Brighton and Hove City Council in 2003, he is Chair of the council’s Culture, Tourism and Enterprise Overview and Scrutiny Committee.  He is also the party’s local spokesman on housing.

A trustee of Same Sky, a community arts organisation in the city, he is a Governor of Elm Grove Primary School. He chairs the Queen’s Park and Craven Vale Neighbourhood Forum.

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