Peter Semens was born spent his childhood in Sunderland (The land split assunder) and graduted in Landscape Design in Leeds. He joined and worked for a landscape practice in Leeds before moving on ...view morePeter Semens was born spent his childhood in Sunderland (The land split assunder) and graduted in Landscape Design in Leeds. He joined and worked for a landscape practice in Leeds before moving on to Kuwait to lead an international consortium designing four beach recreation parks and New Towns where he played rugby for the Kuwait International team - often in Dubai where pubs could be found.. He returned to the UK to work in Glasgow where he started a Landscape Partnership which later specialised in Environmental Assessment before starting his own practice - LEDA(landscape Design and Landscape Assessment) , working mainly for government and Civil Engineers. He has worked in South Africa and America. He is now slowly growing up and is settled in Helensburgh after a spell on the shore of Loch Lomond. He. married Julie, has three children and five grandchildren.view less