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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

🎄Merry Christmas and Happy New Year🎄

We’d like to take this opportunity to thank to all our clients and subconsultants for your support this year. We look forward to working with you all in 2023!

Peggyslea Consented

Delighted to hear that Peggyslea Farm has been granted planning permission by Midlothian Council.

The Local Review Body concluded that: “The layout, design and landscaping details of the development as set out in the proposed plans will fit comfortably in the landscape and complement their rural setting and as such the proposed development accords with the Midlothian Local Development Plan 2017.”

It was great working with Andrew McCafferty on the project, where we provided Landscape Design, Landscape Assessment and visualisation services. Looking forward to seeing it built!

Landscape Institute Awards Finalists

Delighted to hear we are finalists in this year’s Landscape Institute Awards, in the Excellence in Visualisations and Digital Practice category. The project comprised a range of CGI visualisations for a proposed housing development at Hallhill, Dunbar. Our thanks go to Taylor Wimpey for coming to us with this fantastic project and working with us to refine the images.

Looking forward to the awards ceremony in November! Links to tickets below.

In-person

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/…/landscape-institute…

Online

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/…/landscape-institute…

Welcome New Landscape Architects

We are delighted to welcome two new Landscape Architects to the team – Charlotte and Monika. Both hold a Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from Edinburgh College of Art and will be working on both Landscape Design and Landscape Assessment projects. The rest of the team are really looking forward to working with them both.

We are recruiting

We are recruiting! The role available will involve both landscape design and landscape assessment work, along with project management and business development duties, working on a wide variety of projects.

Whilst a Chartered Landscape Architect would be preferred, please don’t hesitate to apply if have not yet completed your chartership, all good applications will be considered.

Stewart’s Resort Retirement Lodges Consented

Delighted to hear that Stewart’s Resort secured planning consent for 35 Luxury Residential Retirement Park Homes recently. The development will be a secure gated community adjacent to the existing new Luxury Lodge Park near St Andrews.

We were pleased to provide a wide range of services for this project, including masterplan design, landscape design, landscape assessment, visualisations and ecological services.

You can find out more about the wider project here:

https://www.brindleyassociates.co.uk/portfolio/northbank-farm/

https://stewartsresort.com/

ISO 9001:2015 Training

We all had a very useful ISO9001:2015 Internal Quality Auditor training session with CQS (Certified Quality Systems) Ltd this week.

ISO 9001 is a set of requirement that define how a Quality Management System should be established and implemented in order to achieve continual improvement and manage risk.

Brindley is already accredited with the IS0 9001 certification, and the training this week will help us to build on those foundations.

Looking forward to streamlining and improving some of our processes in the coming weeks!

Welcome Sarah

Welcome to Sarah, who has recently joined the team as an Office Administrator / PA to the directors.

Sarah provides vital general office management and support to the team. She manages the the day-to-day running of the office, assists with maintenance of our project management system and provides PA support to our directors.

Having previously worked in supervisory, management and customer services positions for a number of years, Sarah has an invaluable skill-set which benefits the entire team.

Welcome Sophie

Welcome to Sophie, who recently joined the team with a paid internship, as part of the third year of her degree in Landscape Architecture at Edinburgh College of Art.

She is primarily assisting with landscape design projects, providing Landscape Layout and Planting Plan drawings for residential developments. In addition to this Sophie is assisting with graphics production for LVIA, including GIS mapping and viewpoint photography.