Planning public relations and communications

PlanningConsultation has been developed as a planning public relations tool to facilitate proper engagement with the local communities and local stakeholders surrounding a proposed development or one underway.  Using the internet in this way provides the general public with a single source of unequivocal information about current proposals, activities and issues, and an easily accessible channel by which they can comment and have their queries answered.

The democratic function of the planning system has always had two major constraints: that only a minority of the local community gets involved in the process, and that it is always difficult for anyone to find out detailed information about a proposed or current development and the issues involved. PlanningConsultation attempts to address both of those shortcomings.

This website and the tools included are tailored to each project, ranging from simple background information through to the use of interactive and evaluation tools enabling visitors to complete questionnaires and those responses to be mapped using Google tools, allowing concerns and issues surrounding larger projects to be displayed visually.