ARB welcomes new Board members

ARB welcomes new Board members (08/02/2007)

The Architects Registration Board (ARB) is delighted to announce that the Privy Council has appointed two new lay members, Philip Cunliffe and Alex Galloway, to the Board. They take up office on 1 April 2007, and succeed Alan Crane and Humphrey LLoyd, who are standing down in March after having served on the Board for six years.

Philip Cunliffe has over forty years’ experience in the construction industry, initially on site constructing infrastructure and regeneration projects, followed by twenty years at Local Authority Board level as Borough Engineer and then as Chief Executive. A Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and of the Chartered Management Institute, he is currently involved both with training a range of professionals and with the recruitment of Board Directors. He has also held posts within the Department of Health ambit as an independent assessor for the Appointments Commission for NHS Board Appointments, and as a lay person involved in the assessment of medical training and selection for the North Western Deanery.

Alex Galloway CVO was previously Clerk of the Privy Council, a post from which he retired in December 2006. His experience is wide-ranging, and he is a past Chair of the British Energy Efficiency Federation, a past member of the DoE/Local Government Practitioners’ Committee on Local Authority Finance, as well as having experience of policy matters on EU Water Quality, Planning, Energy Efficiency, Community Charge/Council Tax, and varied experience at the

Cabinet Office. Mr Galloway is also a Trustee and former Chair of the charity Projects in Partnership, Honorary Treasurer and President-designate of the London branch of Oxford University Society, an Honorary Fellow of the Society for the Environment and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

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Notes for Editors

ARB is the statutory body established by Parliament under the Architects Act 1997 to regulate the UK architects’ profession in the public interest. The Act requires ARB (inter alia) to:

• Maintain the Register of Architects (Section 3)

• Prescribe qualifications for entry to the Register of Architects (Section 4)

• Deal with competence to practise (Section 9)

• Issue a Code which lays down standards of professional conduct and practice (Section 13)

• Regulate use of the title “architect” and prosecute those who use it unlawfully (Section 20)

ARB has a Board of 15 members, seven of whom are architects elected by the profession. The remaining eight are members of the public appointed by the Privy Council to represent the interests of consumers and users of architectural services.

Board members serve for a term of three years. They can, if re-elected or re-appointed, serve for two consecutive terms, six years in total. A Board member who has held office for a continuous period of six years may not be elected or appointed as a member until at least three years have elapsed since he or she last held office. Board members receive an allowance of £250 per day or part thereof spent on Board business.

In his capacity as an independent assessor for the Appointments Commission for NHS Board Appointments, and as a lay person involved in the assessment of medical training and selection for the North Western Deanery, Mr Cunliffe was remunerated at a rate of £200 and £250 per day respectively.

The appointments to the Board have been made in accordance with the Office of Commissioner for Public Appointments (OCPA) Code of Practice. All appointments are made on merit, and political activity plays no part in the selection process. However, in accordance with the original Nolan recommendations, there is a requirement for appointees’ political activity to be made public. Neither appointee has declared any such political activity.