Colin Brock

I stand as an ARB Reform group candidate for a second term of office, resolved to continue to hold the Architects Registration Board to its statutory functions only and to assist the board in conducting these activities.

Your title is why ARB exists. Your retention fee gives you the right to expect that the register and the value of your title are properly maintained.

In 2005, with the help of ACA , RIBA and the press, I exposed widespread abuse of our title. Within the group, I initiated the highly successful policy for ARB to audit 22,000 entries in the directories, case working, prosecution and blocking of false entries. Future challenge - those who falsely imply a qualification.

By acting with unity , the five Reform Group members you elected have succeeded in delivering parity on committees, movement towards a more independent PCC, third party review, outsourced examinations and in restricting undue impositions on competence and indemnity insurance.

We need to strengthen three years of improvement by resisting all threats to title, removing unnecessary monitoring and prescription, ensuring that every activity is permitted by the Act. It is a question of restoring balance, openness, economy and efficiency to what is by name a ‘registration board’. I feel passionate about all of this as a practitioner and Vice President of the Association of Consultant Architects.

For real chance of delivering our manifesto please elect all seven Reform Group candidates: Ruth Brennan, Mark Benzie, Derek Salter, George Oldham, Bernard Wyld, Andrew Mortimer and myself.

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