IHBC member Colin Hatrick was among those to be congratulated for being awarded Honours in the New Year’s list, as he received an MBE for services to heritage in Northern Ireland.
The Planning Portal notes: Katrine Sporle, chief executive of the Planning Inspectorate, has been awarded a CBE; Sporle, given the award for public service, has been chief executive of the inspectorate since 2003. Caroline Burden, former head of planning at the Government Office for the North-East, was given an OBE in the list, along with Alison Quant, president of the Association of Directors of Environment, Economy Planning and Transport, and Jean Dent, former director of city development, Leeds City Council. Other planning professionals recognised in the list included: Keith Clarke, chief executive of WS Atkins; Peter Head, director at Arup; Robert Napier, chairman of the Homes and Communities Agency. All have become CBEs. Jane Halestrap, senior executive officer, eco towns programme team, Department for Communities and Local Government ,was awarded an MBE.
RIBA notes: Three chartered members received awards: David Chipperfield, who received a KBE for services to architecture in the UK and Germany; George Ferguson, who received a CBE for services to architecture and to the community in the South West, and Gareth Hoskins, who received an OBE for services to architecture.
Heritage Alliance notes: A knighthood went to Stephen Bubb, Chief Executive of ACEVO for services to the voluntary sector. CBEs went to Carole Souter Chief Executive of the Heritage Lottery Fund; Christopher Brown Director of the Ashmolean Museum; Professor Michael Fulford, Professor of Archaeology University of Reading; Arthur Torrington Co founder of the Equiano Society for services to Black British Heritage; and to Janet Vitmayer, Chief Executive and Director of the Horniman Museum, for services to museums.
OBEs went to Helen Ashby of the National Railway Museum, York; Robert Balmer, for services to maritime heritage in the north east; Sonia Rolt, for services to industrial archaeology and to heritage; and to Steve Wyler, Director of the Development Trust Association for services to the voluntary sector.
MBEs were awarded to Patricia Birley, Co-founder of the Vindolanda Trust, for services to Roman heritage in Northumberland; Peter Brown, Director of Fairfax House, for services to heritage in York; Gavin Booth, for services to the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust; Leonard Corby for services to BTCV, Jean Dagnall, for services to the Clevedon and District Archaeological Society, Somerset; Ellen Greaves for services to the heritage of Rochdale; Colin Hatrick for services to heritage in Northern Ireland; Raymond Rees for services to coracle heritage in Wales; Anna Watson, Senior Archivist, Lancashire Record Office, for services to Local Government; and to Adam Wilton, for services to the UK Antarctic Heritage. An overseas MBE was awarded to William Jackson, Vice Chairman of the Cayman Maritime Heritage Foundation. The MVO was awarded to Martin Ashley, architect, former SPAB scholar and Surveyor of the Fabric of St George’s Chapel, Windsor.
