Peter Jackson

Peter is the Conservative leader of Castle Morpeth Borough Council. He represents Heddon-on-the-Wall, and is vice chairman of the Local Strategic Partnership, a board member of the Northumberland Strategic Partnership and an Executive Member of the Association of North East Councils. He is also a Northumberland County Councillor.

In business he has built up an arable farming enterprise covering 1,200 hectares in South Northumberland and Durham.

Peter is also vice chairman of the Tynegrain farmer cooperative, a director of GrainCo, a grain marketing company covering the north of England and Scotland, and a director of Tees Valley Biofuels, a company formed to build a large rapeseed crushing facility to feed the biofuel and biomass market.

Peter took up his appointment on 5 March 2007 until 13 December 2009.