Bob Hill, Surveyor and MKDC Commercial Director

Bob Hill was born in Birmingham, and in the late 1960s he was working in London in the Civil Service in 1972 as a Surveyor. When he saw the adverts for building a new city in the middle of Buckinghamshire, he just liked the sound of the job, even though it was not well described. He was not keen on staying in London, and didn’t want to go into private practice at that stage. He says: ‘I think I liked the notion of something that was not a local authority but almost a quasi-public sector job. That might be post-rationalisation: I just liked the look of the ad, and liked what I saw when I got there for the interview on that Friday night’.