Sir Stuart Anthony Lipton (born 9 November 1942) is a British property developer, a founder of Stanhope plc, and the co-founder of the property company Chelsfield with Elliott Bernerd,[2][3] and now a co-founder (with Peter Rogers) and partner in Lipton Rogers Developments LLP.
[1] His mother cofounded, with her brother Gerald Lipton MBE, the retailer Chinacraft in 1951.
[7] Stuart is Deputy Chairman of Chelsfield Partners [8] and as of 2015, through his property company Lipton Rogers, is developing 22 Bishopsgate, which will be the tallest skyscraper in the City of London.
[8] Stuart was knighted in the 2000 Birthday Honours for services to the Property Industry and to the Environment.
Lipton has run several articles in the Financial Times in which he promotes the City of London and he denigrates the rival commercial property estate at Canary Wharf,[11] thus supporting his own commercial interests in the City at Broadgate[7] and 22 Bishopsgate.