Jury Panel
Stuart Kenny, Director General
Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation
Stuart Kenny
Stuart, an economist by profession, initially specialised in East/West trade; his work included representing the UK on a number of EEC and United Nations Committees. Moving into aviation defence planning work, he spearheaded the formulation and implementation of policy regarding the use of civil aircraft and airfields in the UK and overseas at times of crisis and war. Stuart represented the UK on NATO Committees in Brussels and in 1983 was elected Chairman of a major NATO Aviation committee.
After the Falklands War, he moved to Michael Heseltine's Merseyside Task Force, where he had responsibility for the Toxteth area. Having cut his teeth on property matters in Liverpool, in 1988 he was appointed Deputy Chief Executive of Leeds Development Corporation, which became the country's most successful Urban Development Corporation.
In late 1994 Stuart became Director General of Letchworth Garden City Corporation, leading it into the private sector in October 1995, as Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation.
In addition to his Heritage Foundation responsibilities, Stuart is Chairman of Broadway Cinema Ltd and Garden City Technologies Ltd. Stuart is also a member of the North Hertfordshire Sports Council. He was voted Business Person of the Year in the inaugural North Hertfordshire Business Awards and won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2003 Business Awards. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Directors.
Kevin Thompson, Chief Executive
North Hertfordshire Homes
Kevin Thompson
After graduating Kevin worked with young unemployed people in his native north east before moving to London in the 1970’s to work with CSV, the domestic equivalent of VSO, supporting young people on community schemes away from home.
His early career included a wide range of voluntary activity on housing and support projects. He was a founder member and chair of the Harbour Housing Project for young homeless and chair of the Norman House Trust for serious ex offenders, holding both positions for over five years. He continued to focus on community development and neighbourhoods in inner London including working on the development of decentralised service delivery and local accountability for Islington Council.
In 1990s he worked as an adviser for the foreign office to assist the Budapest and Moscow local governments in developing democratic and accountable local structures after the end of communism, which involved many trips to the eastern bloc.
After managing Islington’s housing stock for a number of years, he joined North Hertfordshire District Council in 1999 as Director of Housing. In 2002 he successfully negotiated the stock transfer from NHDC to North Hertfordshire Homes and has remained CEO of NHH since the organisation’s inception in 2003.
Kevin holds a Master of Philosophy degree in organisational change, and is a corporate member of the Chartered Institute of Housing.
Peter Chlapowski Dip. Arch. Msc. RIBA, Director
PCKO Architects
Peter Chlapowski
1982- Director PCKO Architects
1980-1981 Project Architect J. R. Harris Architects
1974-1980 Dept of Architecture Greater London Council
1971-1973 Miastoprojekt municipal design office Krakow, Poland
1970 Pierre Corbisier Architectes, Brussels
Peter is one of the founding partners of PCKO Architects set up following first place in an open RIBA competition for a low energy innovative residential scheme at Crystal Palace.
Peter has a wealth of experience in housing design creating successful residential environment both in the private and public sector embracing also special needs and sheltered housing, working with communities in urban and historic settings. He has also been involved in a spectrum of projects in community buildings, education and the health sector. Peter's work also involves urban design and master planning and 2 projects were recently won in PPG3 related planning appeals.
Peters' particular interests lie in energy efficient sustainable design and he was one of the first architect assessors licensed for NHER rating in the late 80's. In 1994 Peter received the HENRY award from the National Energy Foundation for overall contribution to low energy design.
Peter was recently appointed by RIBA to act as an assessor in judging "Wood on the Street" a students competition for innovative architectural design using wood.
Lynne Sullivan
Broadway Malyan
Lynne Sullivan is a practising Architect and currently leads large mixed use projects in the Thames Gateway and low-energy workplace and residential projects elsewhere in the UK. She is Sustainability Director at Broadway Malyan - a multi-disciplinary design practice of 500 people with offices across the UK and Europe.
Lynne has a track record of successfully completed award-winning buildings including the low-energy 1999 International Building, Royal Holloway College, winner of a RIBA Regional Design Award. She was joint winner of the RIBA/DETR 1999 Zero CO2 Housing Competition whilst at ECD Architects, and has written many papers on the subject of sustainable design. She contributes numerous technical and design review articles to the architectural press and co-wrote a paper on design and renewable energy delivered at the 2006 PLEA (Passive and Low Energy Architecture) Conference at the University of Geneva.
Lynne is the only practising architect on the Governments Building Regulations Advisory Committee, and was the only architect on the Governments 2004-5 Sustainable Buildings Taskgroup. She currently chairs the BRAC Working Party on Sustainability, and is a member of BRE Certifications Sustainability Board.
She is an external examiner at the University of Plymouth and the Welsh School of Architecture, and is an Architectural Adviser to the RIBA Competitions Office.
Dickon Robinson CBE
CABE Commissioner
Dickon Robinson
Dickon is an architect by training and has been Director of Development & Technical Services at the Peabody Trust since 1988. He previously spent a number of years in the Housing Department of the London Borough of Camden. At the Peabody Trust, Dickon has been in the forefront of developing technical innovations in the social housing sector, such as low-energy design and prefabricated volumetric construction. Dickon is Chair of the CABE Space steering group.