community consultation

CONSULTING with local communities is not an option. With the Government having placed it squarely at the heart of its planning agenda, pre-application consultation is a requirement for the great majority of projects. The challenge is to do it well; to win understanding and maybe even hearts and minds.

Our consultation service is built on long experience and a successful track record. Our approach is strategic but you will find that we can do an awful lot more than gather people around a table to talk. We can also bring your proposals to life. We can help you deal with the media. And we are skilled at using the power of the web as a consultation medium.

Good consultation makes a project, bad consultation breaks it. With that in mind we have launched the Daybreak community health check. It works like this:

• Client identifies key sites
• We explore the community relationships at each
• We identify likely future issues and timescales
• We prepare a report and strategy

If you need us to, we can then help you implement the strategy and monitor progress.

Sometimes, you simply need to make complex proposals easier to understand. On other occasions, you may need a “wow factor” to create excitement about ideas that have community benefits.

Bringing projects to life is a challenge we relish – and we have the skills to use any of a range of media:

• Print – brochures and newsletters based on well crafted words and strong design
• Video and Animation – using the power of the telly to create a good base understanding
• Web – A 24-hour a day information source and consultation medium
• Face 2 Face – from public exhibitions through to lobbying

Before we start any of that though consider taking stock of exactly where your project is.

View consultation case studies.