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10 Year Anniversary

Congratulations to Gwilym, who recently reached his 10 year anniversary with Brindley! He’s now the third member of the team to reach this milestone, joining Suzanne and Ross as company veterans.

He joined the practice in 2012 after graduating with an MA in Landscape Architecture from Edinburgh College of Art. Since joining us, Gwilym has worked on a huge range of design projects, most notably The Event Complex Aberdeen (TECA). https://www.brindleyassociates.co.uk/portfolio/teca/

Here’s to the next 10 years!

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 2022!

Hallhill North Consented

Delighted to hear that Taylor Wimpey secured planning permission for their Hallhill North development.

The visualisations team in particular really enjoyed working on this project, where they produced a suite of CGI images to illustrate the development layout design, as well as the open space and natural play area. Producing digital models of bug hotels was especially good fun!

The ecological enhancement measures being proposed for this site are also fantastic, great to see a developer putting so much thought into integrating wildlife enhancement into the design.

Looking forward to seeing the development once built.

We have moved!

We are very excited to announce that we have moved!

We now have a top floor office in Dolphin House, Hunter Square – and are really enjoying to being in Edinburgh City Centre now office working is starting to return.

The finishing touches to the office space are still being put in, but we are already loving our new space.

It would be great to start seeing you all in person again soon, so please get in touch if you would like to meet up for a coffee (or something stronger…)

Staycation Boom?

There has been a fair bit of talk recently regarding a potential boom in the staycation market. Whilst the recent lockdown measures have obviously been quite a blow to the tourism market, there has been some recent evidence of an increased interest in booking staycations rather holidays abroad for upcoming trips. Perhaps as a nation we will rediscover the benefits of holidays in the UK, and exploring our own landscapes?

We have certainly noticed a recent increase in requests for input into holiday lodge parks. As well as completing assessment work for two lodge parks this week, we have had a large number of fee proposal requests for a range of holiday developments since lockdown began. Projects have been extremely varied, from luxury holiday homes and high-end lodge parks, to glamping pods, to standard affordable lodges or static caravans. The proposed sites have been equally varied, with some really interesting remote sites proposed in stunning locations.

Hopefully this is a positive sign of the market being ready to bounce back once restrictions are lifted!

Remote Working Update

It’s hard to believe that it has already been three weeks since we all began working from home due to Covid-19! Despite everything, the last few weeks have been very positive, with fee proposal requests still coming in regularly.

We’ve taken some steps to secure the business for the future, and are still able to provide the full spectrum of services to our clients. All current staff are working hard remotely on active projects.

We are awaiting further guidance regarding site visits, and reviewing any requests on a case-by-case basis.

On the whole, everything is business as usual – so if you have a query please get in touch.

COVID-19 Update

Following current government advice and the changing circumstances of Covid-19 we want to provide an update to our clients, colleagues and suppliers on the measures we are taking to mitigate any impact, to keep Brindley operational, and to keep people safe.

We have no reported symptoms of Covid-19, however in order to minimise any potential risks to our team and others we have instigated a work from home policy effective from 18.03.2020. This includes servicing meetings via conference calls where practical and banning all non-essential travel.

We have well established work from home practices, IT systems and business infrastructure to ensure continuity of service to all of our clients.

We will continue to follow government advice and will update our position accordingly, however we do not anticipate any major impact on our ability to service clients and project delivery.

New Visualisations Specialist

A very warm welcome to our newest team member, Christina, who has recently joined the visualisations team!
Christina has a degree in 3D Computer Animation with Digital Art, and will helping to develop our visualisation capabilities further. Her previous project experience will enable us to work on our animation services, as well as the production of interior CGI images.

BLIMP Licence

Our senior ecologist, Karen Hassard, now holds a bat ‘low impact’ licence (BLIMP) from Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH).

The SNH Licensing team introduced the new bat low impact licensing approach, which is a lighter touch licensing approach for development works affecting low numbers of non-breeding soprano and common pipistrelle bats.

Without altering the outcome for bats and bat roosts across Scotland, BLIMP will reduce the need for submission of individual licence applications and enable low-impact development activities to go ahead with minimal bureaucracy.

For more information please get in touch.

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