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Brindley Associates is pleased to announce that Hawkwood Wind Farm has received planning consent, representing an important milestone for the project and the wider transition towards renewable energy generation in Scotland.

Our team provided the Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA), Residential Visual Amenity Assessment (RVAA), and the full suite of visualisations submitted in support of the planning application for the proposed five-turbine wind farm.

The project required a detailed evaluation of landscape and visual effects, supported by accurate and transparent visual representations of the proposed development. Working closely with the wider consultant team, we delivered a comprehensive package of assessment and visualisation work to assist decision-makers, consultees and local communities in understanding the proposal and its potential effects.

One particularly interesting aspect of the project was the incorporation of nearby forestry schemes within the visualisations. Several areas of woodland had either been recently planted or had received consent but were not yet visible on the ground at the time the viewpoint photography was undertaken. By modelling these forestry schemes alongside the proposed wind farm, the visualisations provided a more realistic representation of the future landscape context and helped demonstrate how woodland growth may influence views over the lifetime of the development.

The successful consent of Hawkwood Wind Farm reflects the collaborative efforts of the project team and demonstrates how carefully considered renewable energy developments can contribute towards Scotland’s energy security and net zero objectives.

We would like to congratulate our client and all members of the project team on securing this positive outcome and look forward to seeing the project progress.

If you would like to learn more about our landscape assessment, visualisation, ecology or landscape design services, please get in touch with our team.

Delighted to announce that we have officially moved office.

Our new home is now at:

2nd Floor, 110 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4LH

The new space gives us a fantastic base in the heart of Edinburgh city centre, with plenty of room for our growing team — and a pretty impressive view of Edinburgh Castle to top it off.

We’re looking forward to welcoming clients and fellow consultants to the new office over the coming months.

A big thank you to everyone who has supported us during the move.

We are delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted in the Pro Landscaper Business Awards, in the Landscape Architecture Studio Over 10 Employees category!

The Pro Landscaper Business Awards are now in their ninth year, and have received a record number of entries this year, so we are honoured to be shortlisted. Unlike many industry awards that focus on individual projects, the Pro Landscaper Business Awards celebrate the business successes of organisations that are leading the industry.

Being shortlisted demonstrates our continued good business practices, strong industry relationships and an invaluable and positive workforce.

We’re looking forwards to the awards ceremony in April – best of luck to all of the nominees!

Pro Landscaper Business Awards 2026 shortlist revealed – Pro Landscaper UK

We are delighted to share that Holmston Old Toll, a high-quality residential development has been approved for Planning Permission in Principle. 

Brindley have been involved with the project since 2018, where we worked to use information modelling software to identify the most appropriate location for development.  We were then subsequently involved with the design evolution and preparation of drawings and reports bringing together our two disciplines, landscape and ecology, to support the PPiP application and showcase what it could deliver for the area.  Our outputs included a Design and Access Statement, Preliminary Ecological Appraisal, Biodiversity Enhancement Plan, Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment with supporting graphics and Spatial Masterplanning services.

We’d like to congratulate our client James Craig Ltd and the wider design team including ICENI, SWECO, Kaya Consulting and Ramage Young who worked hard to make the submission what it was.  Well done team!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all of us!

We’re all looking forwards to a well earned break, hope all of our clients and consultants are too.

The majority of our team finish on Friday 19th December and return on January 5th January.

We are very happy to announce that Jazz recently passed her Chartership assessment and is now a Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute (CMLI).

This was well-deserved after a lot of hard work, and it’s fantastic to have another Chartered Landscape Architect who has a strong ecology background!

To quote Jazz herself: “Being multidisciplinary gives me insight into both worlds and what I love about landscape architecture is that it brings together the outputs and knowledge of so many disciplines so that developments deliver for both people and nature.”

Delighted to end the week with some good news: Bankend Rig III wind farm has been consented!

We loved working on this project (despite the huge number of cumulative sites in the area, which kept our GIS & Visualisation team very busy). Both the client and wider EIA team were a pleasure to work with, so we were very pleased to hear the consent had come through for them.

We provided the Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment for the project, including reporting, GIS mapping, photography and verified photomontages.

We recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of Brindley being a Limited Company.

This provoked a fair bit of reminiscing amongst the team regarding memorable projects over the years. So, we tasked Suzanne with compiling a list of the most memorable or significant projects over the past 20 years. Suzanne first started working at Brindley back in 2007 as a year-out student, before any of the rest of the team, so it seemed fitting that we let her curate this list!

Suzanne has spent much of her career focusing on GIS, visualisations, and LVIA, so apologies to the rest of the team if there is some bias in the choices…

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We’d like to extend a warm welcome to our new Ecological Project Manager, Kay Devlin.

Kay brings over twenty years’ of ecological experience and a wide range of survey and monitoring, research, data collation and analysis, reporting, project costing and project management experience to the Brindley team.

We are all looking forward to working with her.