Peter Nixon
Director of Conservation, National Trust
As Director of Conservation Peter has overall responsibility for all of the National Trust’s land use and historic properties disciplines covering the Trust’s interests in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. These include some 250,000ha of land, 220 historic houses open to the public, of which 149 are registered museums, 200 gardens, 700 miles of coastline, 2000 lettings of farms and farmland, some 50 villages, and over 20,000 buildings. These receive 13 million visits per year to properties open at a charge, and 100 million visits to coast and countryside properties.
Following a Land Economy degree at Cambridge Peter qualified as land agent working initially in private practice in North Yorkshire and then with the Peak National Park in Derbyshire. In 1985 he joined the National Trust as a land agent based at Attingham Park in Shropshire, managing some 20 properties across five counties. In 1990 he became director of the Trust’s former Mercia region, followed by appointment as Chief Agent for the National Trust in 1996 and Director of Conservation in 2001 when all the Trust’s former estate management and historic properties disciplines were brought together as a single unit.
The breadth and diversity of the National Trust’s properties provides a rare opportunity to understand the connections between the natural, historic and cultural aspects of the environment, and the management implications of these. This is a particular interest of Peter’s.
Peter is a Council member of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, and of the Country Land and Business Association, a member of the Rural Climate Change Forum and a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
He is married with two daughters, and his interests include all rural, heritage and environmental issues, and a wide variety of sports.
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