Tom Mason – Chair

Tom Mason is an experienced Architect and Builder with over 30 years of experience in the housing and education sectors. Tom has been involved with HCLT for over 10 years.

An advocate of sustainable construction using natural materials and the ‘Fabric First’ approach, he is also an experienced Passivhaus Designer and runs his own compnay, Circle Architecture. Tom is a lifelong advocate of equality and freedom from oppression – he believes that everyone should have a safe place to live, to raise a family and grow vegetables. He believes that housing should be much cheaper, much more accessible for eveyone, more sustainable and blend more with the natural world.

Tom also volunteers as a Director of Hereford Community Skatepark (Wheeled Sports 4 Hereford Ltd.) where he is active in helping to create a space where people from all areas, of all ages, can find a safe space to have fun and create in a directly democratic environment.

Owen Jones – Treasurer

Owen is a local Accountant with extensive experience on varying projects, large and small. 

Owen believes in the importance of affordable and social housing. He believes that successful Community Land Trusts around the country show how we can build a more fair, equal, and democratic society from the bottom-up. Owen joined the Hereford CLT board in 2026 as HCLT’s Treasurer.

Phil Quinn 

Hi, I’m Phil Quinn, and I am a building services engineer and director of a building and engineering consultancy specialising in sustainable, low energy systems. My work brings together building physics, fabric performance and mechanical systems to deliver simple, efficient and high-performing buildings.
I work across new build and retrofit projects, focusing on practical strategies for decarbonising housing at scale.
Alongside my consultancy work, I teach at Hereford’s Low Carbon Technology Training Centre, supporting the development of skills needed to deliver high-quality, low-carbon buildings.
Based in Herefordshire, I am particularly interested in how community-led development can deliver genuinely affordable, low-impact homes, and I am committed to supporting high-quality, locally rooted housing solutions.
 

Col Hamilton

 I’m Col Hamilton, and I am the founder and MD of CUP CIC, Organiser of Ceramics Festival Hereford, supporter of Hereford Skatepark and contributor to Herefordshie Cultural Partnership. Most of my time is spent running CUP Ceramics, an open-access ceramics studio, gallery and cafe providing studio membership, educational courses, and outreach work for a variety of partner organisations including Royal National College for the Blind, Brookfield School, Beacon College and the HAF program.  My background is in state school education and creative youth and community work. I am very passionate about the power of creative community hubs in building social capital, improving well-being and supporting undeserved people in an increasingly polarising world.

Jeremy Miln

Jeremy Milln is an independent consultant for archaeological conservation and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. He has more than 35 years professional experience working in cultural heritage, 23 of them with the National Trust in the UK in a research and curatorial role for archaeological sites, parkland & industrial landscapes and historic (chiefly vernacular) buildings.

Elected in May 2019 to Herefordshire Council and Hereford City Council to represent the Central ward, Jeremy’s particular interests are in the sensitive and socially beneficial adaptation of underused historic buildings, in green infrastructure in urban environments and in improving health outcomes through better housing.

Living with his family a 10-minute cycle ride away from nearly every part of the city, he is on hand most of the time. 

Andy Johnson

Andy worked for Herefordshire MENCAP and subsequently for Health and Social Services replacing long stay hospitals with community provision for those with learning disabilities. He joined the Board of a housing association which started life with a piece of land in Hereford. By the time he left, the association was managing 30,000 homes from Herefordshire to Coventry. Andy ensuring that the organization’s component parts kept a local focus and commitment. This saw the Herefordshire component establishing an award-winning foyer project for young homeless people and a scheme that enabled young people help build their own homes.

Andy also set up and ran Logaston Press, publishing some 340 titles on local and regional history, art, architecture, and guides, before handing on the Press in 2018. He retains an interest in seeing truly affordable housing being provided, and development carried out in a way that works with the local community.

Rose Eacock 

Believes housing for all is a central tenet of a healthy society.