Steven’s experience is in masterplans, buildings and landscape for universities, schools and colleges, private, public and Community Land Trust housing and mixed -use urban developments; libraries, listed buildings, conservation areas, AONB, World Heritage sites and the parliamentary estate.

He has published articles on sustainable housing, libraries, business schools, halls of residence, schools and listed buildings, play and sport for children. He was a CABE enabler and Design Council Built Environment Expert and wrote the CABE Guide to Transforming Secondary Schools through refurbishment. He is an architect experienced in public consultation and leading multi – disciplinary teams on complex projects; APM -qualified as a project manager; Chairman of Shepheard Epstein Hunter architects (since2008); Director of SEH (since 1989); a RIBA Part III Professional Examiner (Chair at Cambridge since 2008 and annually on the UCL Bartlett Fast Track programme).

He has lef projects that include five masterplans for the University of Oxford (and a Health Trust); new housing (Hull, Newham, Lewisham (Community Land Trust); university projects (University of Leicester over 19 years, from small refurbishments to £100m research facilities (Space Park Leicester) and Lancaster, Liverpool, East Anglia; school and youth community projects (Newham, Lambeth, Westminster, Hackney); independent schools (Ashford, Bath, Putney, Surrey); the Parliamentary Estate and volunteer and community libraries in Hackney and Brent.