Peter Martin

Peter Martin grew up in the South East of England and studied at Oxford School of Architecture (now Oxford Brookes University) for six years, leaving in 1970. After four years working in a small London architects’ practice, an old friend suggested Peter came up to Milton Keynes for an interview with the Development Corporation (MKDC). Housing could be offered, better than their one-bedroom London flat.

Peter left MKDC in 1987 when the building directorate became PDD (Planning Design Development Ltd.). He ‘was a refusenik’ and then worked for Jeff Davis, commercial architect, out of Beckett house in Loughton. Within a year he had moved to work with Wayland Tunley. They competed for design of Tesco at Kingston, he says: ‘ the world would have been different for us if we’d won that design competition for Tesco’. However Wayland folded the practice in the early 1990s and Peter then worked for Tom Hancock on housing in Letchworth. In 1998, he then joined a practice with Pete Renn and Guy Hammond as a sister company to David Lock Associates, MK, and retired just before the pandemic.