Our Team

Randall Bevis

Head of Home Ownership Services

Randall heads up the leasehold management and home ownership areas at CityWest Homes Limited –Westminster City Council's arms length management organisation. His unit is the only operation ever to receive an ‘excellent' rating by the Audit Commission through a discrete inspection.

After a career in administration, HR and property management with the Australian Public Service, he joined Westminster City Council's Housing Department in 1993, working on the capital and revenue programmes, before moving into project work involving district heating systems and commercial premises. In 1996, he joined the newly formed Lessee Services Group to project manage delivery of major works recharging, taking up his present post in 1998.

He has a particular interest in improving efficiency through the use of ITC in leasehold management to reduce costs. In 2005 he headed up a project team looking at customer service and resident communication issues across CityWest Homes's operation in preparation for CWH 's successful re-inspection by the Audit Commission in 2006. Randall is the National Federation of ALMOs representative on the Communities and Local Government backed social sector working party looking at leasehold and service charge issues.

As well as the day job, Randall is currently working to deliver Westminster City Council's settled homes initiative which involves a the re-purchase of 125 units from leaseholders for use as an alternative to temporary accommodation for families on the housing list. He is also working on an initiative with the Dolphin Square Foundation to acquire, refurbish and manage a small portfolio of properties.

Randall's hobby is collecting and occasionally trading die cast model “Dinky” cars.

Tom Quaye

Manager

Tom is the newly appointed Manager of CityWest Homes Residential. He has worked in managerial positions within the field of Estate Agency for eight years and in a variety of locations across London. Tom has been a Member of ARLA (Association of Residential Lettings Agents) since 2004 and has a track record of delivering exceptional customer service.

Tom enjoys every aspect of Estate Agency, especially working with clients, customers, members of the team and has a passion for property. Since the start of his career Tom has gained experience working in a broad variety areas from Wimbledon to Walthamstow and varying types of property from City of London new builds to ex-Local Authority apartments. Tom is adept at meeting the needs of all clients whether local landlord, overseas investor, first time landlord or large portfolio client.

Originally from Kent, Tom enjoys travel, seizing new experiences that can be offered, including abseiling from Battersea power station to raise funding for the CLIC Sargent charity; terrifying but thoroughly worthwhile!

Please don’t hesitate to contact Tom directly for free impartial advice concerning your property or our services.

Jamie Morgan

Lettings Negotiator

Member of ARLA

In the summer of 2009 Jamie joined us with several years of experience in the property industry having worked for a large corporate letting agent. You could say Jamie Morgan has property running through his veins with his father being a director of a large north-eastern England property company.

Jamie has worked in the central London lettings market for several years, starting with one of London’s most prominent estate agency groups and working for his father’s agency in his native North East of England for a number of years, building on his wealth of knowledge in lettings.

Since joining CityWest Homes Residential, we congratulate Jamie Morgan for successfully completing the National Federation of Property Professionals’ (NFOPP) technical award in residential letting and property management. Jamie is now a full member of the Association of Residential Letting Agents (MARLA).

Jamie has work experience and understanding in the competitive environment of Florida, USA in both residential and commercial property. This was gained whilst studying at one of Florida’s top business schools reading a degree in Advertising/Marketing/Management (BBA).

In his spare time Jamie is a very capable sportsman, relocating and studying to Florida on a full athletic scholarship to play Soccer.

Jamie’s main ambition and desire, is to play an integral role in growing and developing CityWest Homes Residential into one of London’s top letting agents.

Colleen Dawson

Lettings Coordinator

Colleen Dawson is the newest member to join CityWest Homes Residential Lettings team as the lettings co-ordinator.

Colleen adds international flair to the lettings team having come over from Gibraltar in 1999 to read BSc (Hons) International Hospitality & Tourism Management degree at the University of Surrey. Since then Colleen has gained work experience in a broad range of serviced based industries in various roles including human resources assistant, account management, sales and marketing in a number of countries including Australia, New Zealand and the USA.

She also worked for Enterprise Rent-A-Car in London on their graduate training programme where she managed the day to day operations of the branch.

She enjoys working with people from diverse backgrounds and has experience working for companies with a strong culture of customer service.

When not working she can be found practicing her rowing technique on the Thames, reading and travelling.

Meadows Hulme

Negotiator

In the summer of 2011 Meadows Hulme joined CWHR with several years of experience in the property, industry having worked for a larger competitor.

Meadows has a great deal of experience across the south west London property market and has experience of valuing and letting a broad spectrum of property types; from freehold houses & ex local authority apartments to converted schools.

In his spare time Meadows is very interested in football, music, all things French and spending time in the south west of England.

Meadows is able, willing and available to give impartial and practical advice concerning residential lettings at any time during working hours.

Darren Levy

Director of Customer Services

Darren is the Director of Customer Services for City West Homes and is responsible for housing and estate management services, building and property services, lessees' service charge billing and recovery, together with CityWest's complaints team.

Since joining CityWest Homes in 2002, Darren has set up CityWest Direct,(the company's in-house direct management arm), helped establish CityWest's new business agenda and developed closer ties with Westminster City Council's Property Division in the management of commercial properties.

Prior to joining CityWest Homes, Darren spent a number of years managing properties and services within the RSL sector, for both The Guinness Trust and Southern Housing Group.

Lorna Whitehorn

Relationship and Communications Manager

Having worked in the housing field since 1978, Lorna started work in the Resident Involvement team for Westminster City Council in June 1998.

After successfully managing the resident consultation process for repackaging of the housing management contracts and the setting up of the ALMO CityWest Homes, Lorna assisted in setting up the governance arrangements and Board structures for the new organisation.

Her previous work experience includes being Director of Short life Housing Ltd in Camden, which was a tenant management organisation that focussed on providing housing for single people. She received a personal commendation from Prince Charles for her work at this organisation.

Lorna is currently responsible for overseeing the relationship management between CityWest Homes and its 14 Tenant Management Organistions and managing the Resident Involvement and Communications teams.

Lorna's hobbies include being a Grecophile, travelling and a being an Arsenal supporter.

Jayne Williams

Communications Officer

Jayne is currently communications officer at CityWest Homes and is responsible for media relations, event organisation, managing the corporate website, internal communications and writing corporate publications including CityWest News, an award winning resident newsletter.

Prior to joining CityWest Homes, Jayne worked in communication roles for two of the UK's largest housing associations, Genesis Housing Group and Home Group.

Jayne is a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) and recently passed with merit the CIPR Diploma in Public Relations.

Colin Levy

Area Guide Author

Colin's passions in life are; London's history, industrial archaeology, archaeology of the medieval church & marine archaeology of the River Thames, art, photography and writing.

He regularly takes colleagues on walks around London after work, looking at where the Beatles lived and worked, the scary tales around the east end streets of Spitalfields and Whitechapel, the regenerated Covent Garden, alleyways of the City, artistic haunts around Camden and Islington, bards and brothels on Bankside, lives of Fitzrovia, tales of Pimlico and more locally the aristocratic palatial homes in Belgravia.

Another passion is attending evening classes in London studies, where he achieved a diploma in London History from Birkbeck, and numerous certificates from City University including archaeology, industrial archaeology and guiding. At present he is studying London Architecture at City University

At 58, his wish in life now is to enjoy those ‘passions'. Colin joined Westminster City Council in 1975 and during the late 60s and early 70s he was a disc jockey at the Birds Nest in the Kings Road, Chelsea, and was even mentioned in an article in the New Musical Express.