Peter van der Zwan

Peter is an architect with experience in the UK and US. He has led projects in large-scale housing regeneration, urban design, and infrastructure in his previous roles at Pollard Thomas Edwards and Hawkins\Brown. Before becoming an Associate, he led a multidisciplinary team through three phases of the South Kilburn Regeneration programme. In addition, he worked on the masterplan, design code and infrastructure for a new 2,600-home garden village in Surrey and two Passivhaus urban extensions in Oxfordshire.

Peter believes in designing buildings that are sensitive to their context and has a fascination for buildings and communities designed around active transport. He is an alumnus of the Future London Leaders programme and a past RIBA student mentor.

Epping Forest District Council

He was matched with the role of Principal Planning Officer at Epping Forest District Council. Peter's main role was working with developer consortiums to create masterplans for sites in Epping district and Harlow and Gilston Garden Town. These sites typically had multiple ownerships, and the masterplans were endorsed as SPDs. He was also involved in the writing of a Design Code for a strategic site in the district that had received DLUHC funding and the co-production of an SPD for a large strategic site with a neighbouring council.