Peter Hetherington is a British journalist. He writes regularly for The Guardian on land, communities, and regeneration.[1] He is also a vice-president, and past chair of the Town and Country Planning Association,[2] former regional affairs and northern editor of The Guardian and the author of the 2015 book, Whose Land is Our Land? The use and abuse of Britain's forgotten acres,[3] and the 2021 book, Land Renewed: Reworking the Countryside.[4]