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Peter was appointed Director for Sustainable Communities for Cambridgeshire  Horizons in November 2004, having previously been Director of Planning at  Cambridge City Council since 1991. An architect and town planner by training, Peter has 28 years experience in  local government, having also worked for a number of Inner London Boroughs from  1976 to 1991. He represents the East of England on the Regional Committee of the Commission  for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), and he is also a member of  English Heritage Advisory Committee. He is a member of the Heritage Review Steering Committee of the Department  for Culture, Media and Sport, and during 2003/4 he was a member of the  Government's Sustainable Buildings Task Group.

Momentum builds for green buildings

March 12th, 2007 by Peter Studdert

With the Government at last getting serious about moving towards zero carbon buildings, the construction industry has also taken a positive step forward with the formation of the UK Green Building Council and the appointment of WWF’s Paul King as its new Chief Executive.  
Even a year ago it would have been unimaginable that companies …

Seasonal bonanza of housing policy initiatives

December 19th, 2006 by Peter Studdert

The month before Christmas is always a busy time for Government policy initiatives.  With the prospect of Yuletide festivities in the offing, Ministers and civil servants are keen to clear their desks of all those awkward projects and proposals that have been hanging around during the previous year.
However, Christmas 2006 will go down in history …

Building new communities

October 23rd, 2006 by Peter Studdert

The East of England needs to build over half a million new homes between 2001 and 2026 if current and future housing needs are to be met.  Of these, over 70,000 are to be built in Cambridgeshire, mostly in or close to the city of Cambridge whose economy is expected to continue to grow rapidly …

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