ALAN HOLMAN RETIRES

On Friday 28 August some 35 people gathered in Cambridge for a seminar entitled ‘Housing requirements, housing demand and housing policy’ to mark the retirement of Alan Holmans from the Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research. In addition to a series of substantive papers, tributes were paid to Alan’s contributions to housing research and policy over many years, initially as chief economic adviser at the Ministry of Housing and Local Government and Department of the Environment from 1968 to 1994, and latterly as Research Fellow at CCHPR. Alan was given no choice about retiring from the Civil Service at 60 but Christine Whitehead made it clear that this time a desk will remain available to him, and that colleagues at CCPHR expect to continue working with him on a part time basis for some time to come. Alan also served as an HSA committee member for many years, and the committee would like to thank him for his contribution, and his dedication to the role of Treasurer.