Manchester’s Boylan lined up for senior HCA role

  Eamonn Boylan, the deputy chief executive of Manchester city council, is being lined up for a senior role at the new Homes and Communities Agency (HCA).   The agency has been interviewing for a senior management team in recent weeks and Boylan has been linked with the role of deputy chief executive.   Sources said Boylan’s resignation has not been officially received but there was an “expectation” he would be leaving the council.   The HCA was established last year and will take on the work of English Partnerships and the Housing Corporation, as well as some regeneration programmes handled by the Department of Communities and Local Government.   It will begin work officially on April 1 2009.   Boylan was previously in charge of housing at Manchester city council and is currently head of regeneration, working closely with chief executive Sir Howard Bernstein.   Former Sheffield city council chief executive Sir Bob Kerslake took up the post of chief executive of the HCA in March.   Neither the HCA nor the council would comment.   david.quinn@egi.co.uk