Irene C McFarlane

Irene was appointed as Chief Executive Officer in July 2015 and has over 34 years’ experience working in social housing.

She is responsible for implementing the strategy agreed by the Committee and working with our Executive and Senior Leadership team to ensure we deliver our objectives/plans and comply with all relevant legislation and the standards set by the Scottish Housing Regulator.  

Irene is committed to changing and improving the way we do things at Linthouse, to delivering much needed investment in our housing stock, customer experience of our service and securing value for money in all that we do.  Irene is passionate about working in partnership with others to attract resources into our area to ensure that the people and communities we are here to serve are well supported and connected into other services which compliments LHAs mission of creating strong urban communities that people want to live and work in.  Irene is a member of the Chartered Institute of Housing and her qualifications include a BA in Social Administration, a Diploma in Housing Studies and a Master’s in Business Administration. The CEO reports direct to the Chairperson of LHA.