John Lewis

Executive Director Thamesmead

Expert panel member

John is leading one of London’s largest regeneration programmes which will position Thamesmead as London’s New Town, creating 20,000 new homes of all tenure types to help meet the Capital’s housing needs.

Previously he spent 6 years as CEO of Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation, a self-funded charitable organisation providing support services to maintain and enhance the world’s first garden city. John joined the Heritage foundation from Milton Keynes Partnership, a government-funded delivery agency, where he was CEO responsible for the economic and housing growth of the new city.

John is a professional member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and has a Master of Arts in Urban Regeneration. He is the Chair of Greatwell Homes a Northamptonshire-based Housing Association and is a Director of the Creative Land Trust, a charity established to secure affordable workspace for creatives in London.

NLA Expert Panel member for the Housing programme #NLAHousing

Latest contributions

Transport & Infrastructure

28 January 2025

The need for new towns in the UK

Peabody’s Executive Director of Sustainable Places, John Lewis highlights the need for new UK towns, with Thamesmead as a key example of major opportunity.

Housing

14 March 2022

Housing Expert Panel focuses on eligibility, engagement and transparency

John Lewis, Executive Director for Thamesmead at Peadbody, reports from the latest meeting of the NLA Expert Panel on Housing

Changing face of London

14 October 2020

Changing face of Thamesmead

Peabody executive director John Lewis looks back over the last 15 years of London’s development via NLA’s The Changing Face of London exhibition and argues that the regeneration of Thamesmead, now und...

Expert panel member