Peter White

Since the ‘90’s, he has specialised in historic building repurposing. The communities of small business people that naturally gravitated to these characterful, unique and affordable schemes, and formed social and trading relationships, were the tangible evidence that historic property had huge potential in community development and placemaking. 

Peter has since gone on to apply a similar approach to a variety of listed buildings from a including Piece Hall in Halifax (Grade I), where he developed the operational plan that won a £7m Heritage Grant, kickstarting a £20m scheme that has become one of the most sort-after outside performance arenas and retail leisure destinations in the country. 

In the West Midlands he developed the Argent Centre (Grade II*) in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter as a workspace for creative enterprises. In London, he was responsible for the Goldsmiths’ Centre’s repurposing of a Victorian school – an £18m mixed use scheme designed specifically for the Jewellery industry. 

More recently he identified and then repurposed a group of listed agricultural buildings owned by the National Trust into the new, relocated training centre for Bishopsland Educational Trust, negotiating the lease and successfully project managing the scheme to completion. 

The golden thread running through all his work is that all his projects turn a listed liability into a sustainable listed asset for a variety of worthwhile purposes that help communities thrive.