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At Brookbanks, our Land Development and Communities team is where most projects begin. We take a concept, often just an idea and guide it through planning and initial technical approvals, ensuring it’s viable, sustainable, and ready for development.

A Unified Team

What sets us apart is our integrated approach. Rather than clients having to coordinate multiple consultants, we bring everything together under one roof. This unified structure eliminates disconnects, reduces delays, and ensures that priorities are aligned from day one. It’s a joined-up approach that saves time and adds value.

Transport

Utilities

Flood Risk

Hydrology

Environment

Sustainability

Consistent Leadership, Ongoing Involvement

Unlike many consultants, we don’t just deliver a report and move on. The directors you meet at the outset remain involved throughout the project. We don’t disappear or delegate everything to junior staff. When you need answers, you get them from someone who knows your project inside and out.

Solving Challenges, Adding Value

Every site presents its own challenges—be it flood risk, access infrastructure, or sustainability requirements. Our role is to make development possible by finding practical, bespoke solutions. We understand that delays cost money, so we focus on delivering clear, direct advice that helps clients make informed decisions without unnecessary complexity.

Real Results: Court Lodge, Ashford

A prime example of our approach is the Court Lodge project in Ashford. The local council proposed the Southeast Ashford Bypass as a requirement for the scheme. However, through detailed highway trip analysis and environmental engineering, we demonstrated that the bypass was not only unnecessary but potentially harmful to local wildlife.

This rigorous, evidence-based approach saved our client over £15 million in infrastructure costs.

Moving Projects Forward

This is what we do at Brookbanks. We take complex sites, find solutions, add value, and move projects forward.

That’s the Brookbanks difference.

Meet the team...

Principal Consultant - Hydrology

Alejandro Marcotegui

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Associate Utilities Director

Danny Lloyd-Jones

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Project Consultant – Flood Risk and Drainage

Katherine Peers

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Group Director for Land, Development and Communities

Lee Witts

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Director of Utilities

Mat Capper

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Director of Transportation and Highways / Head of Eastern Office

Melanie A'Lee

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Check out the services that LDC provide...

BREEAM Assessment & Advisory

Delivering sustainable buildings is about more than ticking boxes. At Brookbanks, we integrate BREEAM strategy into every stage of your project — from conc...
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Ground Conditions and Contamination

We can assist with your concerns regarding ground condition, be they contamination or geotechnical.
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Highways and Transportation

At Brookbanks we provide transportation and highways services to assist clients in the delivery of their development proposals.
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Hydrology

We aid in the optimisation of water, pollution reduction, and promote environmental sustainability to benefit communities across the UK. Moreover, we pos...
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Land, Development and Communities Group

Our Land, Development and Communities Group (LDC) has built an enviable reputation across our industry as leading providers of a variety of services with t...
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Nutrient Neutrality Assessments and Mitigation Strategies

The issue of Nutrient Neutrality has been holding up development for over four years now. Whilst legislation, guidance and discussion around the topic is o...
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Utilities

The management of a development’s interaction with existing utility infrastructure and coordination of new utility infrastructure is critical to its succes...
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Elevating Value: Planning & Project Management in Action

October 22, 2025

In today’s development landscape, the ability to unlock value through effective planning and project management has never been more critical. Increasing regulation, complex stakeholder networks, and heightened expectations around sustainability and deliverability mean that every decision, from concept to completion, carries weight.

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Bridgend College – Flagship Project & Ceremony

October 21, 2025

Brookbanks is proud to have delivered the civil and structural engineering design for Bridgend College’s transformative new town centre campus. This is a landmark £50 million development that will provide 13,000m² of state-of-the-art educational space across two buildings.

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