
As Chair of the ASC Professor Roberts is responsible for providing effective strategic leadership and is the principal link between the ASC Board and the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG).
As well as Chair for the ASC, Peter is Professor of Sustainable Spatial Development at the Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds. He also advises Addleshaw Goddard on matters concerned with sustainable communities and regeneration, regional and urban planning and environmental management.
Peter has conducted research and provided advice for a wide range of UK, European and regional governments, partnership, local authorities, private organisations and local communities on governance, planning, sustainable communities, regeneration and environmental matters.
He has written many books, reports and papers on urban and regional governance, planning and development, sustainable communities and regeneration, and the spatial dimension of environmental management and sustainable development.
Peter currently teaches on the BURA Regeneration Training Programme on the Strategies for Sustainable Communities and Regeneration and Succession and Progression Strategies.