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Government appoints ex-Olympic design director as £110k chief planner
Cabe veteran Joanna Averley will be first woman in the job when she starts in September
Former Cabe executive Joanna Averley has been named as the government’s new chief planner, with a salary of around £110,000.
She will take up the role in early September, filling the shoes of Steve Quartermain who retired from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) at the start of the coronavirus pandemic after 12 years and an OBE.
Averley, who was deputy chief executive of Cabe and also design director at the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA), is the first woman to hold the post which is considered the figurehead of the profession.
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