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2025 Summary & Looking Ahead to 2026

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2025 was a year of transformation for Brookbanks. From unlocking land to shaping communities, we’ve worked tirelessly to deliver projects that make a real difference. Here’s a look back at what we achieved and a glimpse of what’s ahead.

2025 Highlights

Planning Success: Secured over 15 outline planning consents, enabling 7,500+ new homes
Land Development: Unlocked 400+ hectares of land for future growth.
Infrastructure Delivery: Supported construction of 3,000 new homes and 400 km of new infrastructure
Community Impact: Enhanced social value by helping deliver 10 schools and 8 local centres
Innovation & Savings: Delivered £120M+ in client savings through innovation and value engineering
  1. Planning Success: Secured over 15 outline planning consents, enabling 7,500+ future, new homes.
  2. Land Development: Unlocked 400+ hectares of land for future growth.
  3. Infrastructure Delivery: Supported construction of 3,000 new homes and 400 km of new infrastructure
  4. Community Impact: Enhanced social value by helping deliver 10 schools and 8 local centres.
  5. Innovation & Savings: Delivered £120M+ in client savings through innovation and value engineering.

This year we also…

 

Launched a podcast!

 

We talked about topics including National Planning Policy Framework and Sustainable Drainage Systems and had guests including Emily Timmins from MADE Partnerships and Paul Brocklehurst, Chairman of the Land, Planning and Development Federation (LPDF)

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Raised Money for Lingen Davis!

 

Our Charity partner for this year was Lingen Davis and our target was to raise £15k

We smashed this goal and raised

£17,527.75 (inc gift aid)

We achieved this goal through several different methods but our highlight of the year was sportive, an unforgettable day of cycling and community. To find out more, read the linked article

Brookbanks Sportive 2025

Defined our success by its measurable impact, strong partnerships, and sustained growth!

Over the past 12 months, we have supported in the planning, design or delivery of:

  • Over 30,000 acres of development land
  • Over 100,000 new homes
  • 400km of road and drainage infrastructure
  • Over six million sqm of commercial space
  • Unlocked 150MVA of power for new developments
  • Over 2000 Photovoltaic panels specified generating over 1.2MW of power and saving over 134 Tonnes of carbon
  • Over 20 new schools and local centres
  • Commenced work on over 300 new projects

Through innovative design, value engineering and commercial insight, we have worked to deliver over £120m in cost savings for our clients.

Opened Three new Offices!

 

Cambridgeshire and East Anglia office

Guildhall, Market Square, Cambridge, CB2 3QJ

Headed up by: Lee Bowers

South West Office

The Mount, 72 Paris Street, Exeter, Devon, EX1 2JZ

Headed up by: Richard Quarry and Mark Baldwin

Wales Office

Harcourt House 15 St Andrews Crescent Cardiff CF10 3DB

Headed up by: Andrew Wilkinson, Callum Parker and Tom Quaife-Jones

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Andrew Wilkinson, Director and Head of Wales Office at Brookbanks
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Callum Parker, Associate Director for Hydrology
Associate Director for Hydrology

Callum Parker

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Lee Bowers, Structural Director at Brookbanks
Structural Director

Lee Bowers

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Mark Baldwin, Senior Associate Director at Brookbanks
Senior Associate Director

Mark Baldwin

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Commercial Director & Head of South West Office

Richard Quarry

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Tom Quaife-Jones, Director of Acoustics at Brookbanks
Director of Acoustics

Tom Quaife-Jones

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Looking forward to 2026

  • Continuing our expansion across the UK
  • To help our clients by securing more planning consents, unlocking land for development and help support clients to meet the target of building 1.5m new homes in England by 2029.
  • Ensure we’re bringing the best innovative design and engineering to the table to overcome challenges and implement cost saving solutions.
Follow our journey as we continue shaping the UK’s landscape and keep up to date with everything happening in 2026 through our LinkedIn
Here’s to an exciting 2026 and building better, together.

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