Welcome to WISH South West

Meghan Rossiter, Associate Director – DLP Planning Ltd.

Meghan has worked in planning for 12 years, providing development and local plans advice to public and private sector advice largely on the housing sector. She has been involved in the delivery of affordable housing schemes across the South West and West Midlands, working across schemes for housing associations and housebuilders from development appraisal through to appeals.

Meghan joined the WISH SW board in 2019.

Faith has over a decade of professional housing experience gained in Westminster, London. She spent eight years working for Westminster Community Homes (WCH), the innovative Housing Association set up by Westminster Council. Faith joined WCH from its infancy and was instrumental in growing the stock holding from zero to over 400 units. As a critical member of a small organisation, Faith's Operations Manager role brought diverse responsibilities including contract management, relationship management, new build and infill development as well as the acquisitions and disposals programmes. Faith also managed the Lessee Negotiators appointed to conduct buy backs for ambitious Westminster regeneration schemes.

More recently, Faith joined Legal and General Affordable Homes (LGAH) in May 2021. As a Contract and Relationship Manager, Faith manages the relationship with two of the fourteen Management Providers who carry out the housing management function on behalf of LGAH. Legal and General use institutional long-term investment to deliver affordable housing, which is sustainable and high quality, putting the customer at the heart of all the homes it delivers. 

Faith is passionate about mental health and an advocate for awareness of mental health issues in the workplace. 

Faith is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Housing. She recently spent a year in Sydney, Australia studying a Diploma in Leadership and Management, and re-located from London to Devon in September 2020.

Natasha Moore, Interim Chair, Executive Housing Consultant - TristoneNash

Natasha has over 16 years’ experience of providing recruitment solutions to the Affordable Housing Sector.

She maintains a reputable relationship with a large network of Housing professionals across the UK ranging from National RSL's to more bespoke local providers.

Having successfully provided assistance on large scale recruitment drives her knowledge includes (but is not limited to) Housing Management, Asset Management & Property Services, Supported Housing & Homelessness and Housing Development.

Natasha joined the WISH SW board in 2013.

Sinead Lee, Project Manager – Catalyst Housing and Freelance Housing Consultant

Sinead has over 12 years’ experience working in a variety of roles in the Social Housing Sector. 

Like many others, she fell into the industry, and hasn’t looked back since. She is passionate about all things housing, and has expertise in housing management, service improvement and policy development. 

Sinead is a chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Housing, and has recently joined their South East working group. 

She is delighted to join the WISH SW board, and is looking forward to collaborating with others, sharing knowledge and experiences, and to champion the great work of WISH.

Outside of her professional life, Sinead loves to cook and bake, and spend time with her family and friends.

Heidi Leyshon, Communities Manager – Sovereign

I started my working life as a professional dancer. I wanted a career that could make a difference to people and found Social Housing challenging and rewarding for the last 10 years. I started off as a generic housing officer, before moving to resident scrutiny, then community investment. Most recently I’ve set up a community empowerment team and latterly supported tenancy sustainment through setting up an employment and training service.

I’ve worked in small and medium sized organisations across the west of England and am currently work for the leading housing association in the south of England with almost 60,000 homes.

As a member of Communities that Work, I’m delighted to be supporting the efforts of  their housing taskforce who have urged the housing and employment APPG to drive forward practical solutions for the unemployed and ensure social housing is seen by government. One of the practical solutions has been the creation of Kickstart. A programme for unemployed young people to gain work experience and confidence to secure work.

Katie is a New Business Project Manager and works in the Development Team at LiveWest. LiveWest own and manage over 37,000 homes across the South West and are committed to delivering a volume of affordable homes of different tenures and types across the region. She started her career as a graduate with the company in 2017 and has since worked on a wide range of development schemes. Katie enjoys the varied and challenging nature of the role and was chosen as a ‘Future Leader’ by LiveWest in 2019.

Katie is an advocate for fairness and equality in the sector and is a member of LiveWest’s Equality, Diversity & Inclusion working group. She is also a member of the Bristol Property Inclusion Commission. The Commission consists of representatives from the Bristol property industry and supports the implementation of the Bristol Property Inclusion Charter.

As a board member for WISHsw, Katie looks forward to assisting WISH in their aim to champion positive outcomes for all women through friendly and relaxed events.

Emma Osmundsen, Managing Director – Exeter City Living Ltd.

Raised in Wales and with Norwegian roots, Emma has over twenty-five years of experience in the world of construction, having studied Building and Surveying at UWE Bristol and qualified as a Chartered Building Surveyor in 1993.

She has gone on to become one of the leading global voices in the development and delivery of low energy, healthy and climate resilient homes and buildings, including being a champion of high performance Passivhaus standards within building.

Emma’s Passivhaus journey started in 2008 when she headed up the development of the UK’s first multi-residential certified Passivhaus scheme for Exeter City Council. Since then, Emma has been responsible for delivering more than 100 Passivhaus homes across the city and, more recently, the start on site of two UK-first Passivhaus developments; an Extra-Care elderly housing village and Leisure Centre.

Naomi Sweeting, Director – Customer Voice

Naomi has over 20 years’ experience working across all areas of customer insight, customer experience, strategy and data. With both agency and client-side experience, she is able to design and deliver all aspects with full knowledge and experience of the need to be actionable to businesses. Previous positions include: Lloyds Banking Group; COI (Central Office of Information) and UWE Bristol. Prior to establishing a sector consultancy,  Naomi was Head of Insight and Performance at Alliance Homes where she transformed their resident involvement and performance teams into a single insight function – delivering a  psychographic customer segmentation; fully optimised digital customer engagement platform and an instant feedback functionality.

Deena Blake, Associate – Lester Aldridge

Deena is an experienced real estate lawyer specialising in residential development and social housing.

Deena’s experience includes acting for a number of the top 10 national house-builders, regional house-builders, housing associations, councils and private individuals.

Hannah Sequeira, Associate – JLL

Hannah has over 10 years’ experience in the construction industry, working across several sectors but specialising in residential development. She has been involved in the delivery of a variety of residential projects on behalf of private developers, registered providers and local authorities alike. 

She is a chartered member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, having qualified in 2014.

She is delighted to join the WISH SW board, and is looking forward to collaborating with others and playing her part in giving back to the region.

Hannah joined the WISH SW board in 2020.

Rosalyn Trotman – Partner in Planning, Head of Development of Land  

Rosalyn joined Thrings in 2014 after a number of years in local government. She is ranked as a leader in planning in the South West by Chambers & Partners and Legal500 directories.

Rosalyn advises on all aspects of planning including drafting and negotiation of section 106 agreements, highways and utilities agreements, advising on Community Infrastructure Levy, interpretation of policy, due diligence in property transactions and planning appeals and High Court challenges.

Rosalyn specialises in urban planning, acting on a range of residential, mixed use and commercial development schemes for regional housebuilders and developers, registered providers, promoters and landowners.

Gemma Clissett, Regional Partnerships Director, Lovell Partnerships, South Wales South West Region
Gemma’s primary responsibility is to drive growth and new business across the region and leads the land and partnerships team to identify and secure new business opportunities to facilitate delivery of the regional growth plan. Gemma a specialist in establishing and developing relationships with key clients including Local Authorities, Housing Associations, Land Agents and consultants to advance scheme progress and deliver an optimum housing solution. Working for the business for over 15 years Gemma has developed an excellent network of contacts across the region and has been involved in securing large scale and multi phased, partnership schemes.