Peter Rees joins the Bartlett, UCL’s faculty of the built environment

Peter Wynne Rees is to join The Bartlett in April after 29 years as the City of London Corporation's City Planning Officer. Peter, who studied architecture at The Bartlett, will become Professor of Places and City Planning as part of a three-year professorship - with the first year sponsored by the City Corporation. He joined the City Corporation in 1985 and was City Planning Officer during a period of substantial regeneration and change. His previous jobs include periods with the Historic Buildings Division of the Greater London Council and in private practice with Gordon Cullen. While at the Department of the Environment, he advised local authorities across England on the conservation and planning of historic towns. As Assistant Chief Planning Officer to the London Borough of Lambeth, from 1979-85, he led the production of the borough's conservation strategy and the regeneration of Brixton and Vauxhall. "I am delighted that Peter is to join us - there are very few people in the world who can be said to have shaped the skyline of a world city, but Peter is one of them," sauid Professor Alan Penn, Dean of The Bartlett.