Planning application support, and community and stakeholder engagement

About us

Over the last two decades, Chelgate has built a reputation as one of the country’s leading practices handling communications, and public relations surrounding planning applications, stakeholder engagement and community consultation for development projects. Our track record is impeccable – we have not been involved with a project that has failed for over a decade. We can also assist clients in the new disciplines and communications needs that the Localism Bil will bring, when it is enacted later this year. We are very familiar with the concepts behind localism and neighbourhood planning as we have been practicing them for over 20 years.


We have handled all types and kinds of projects, including contentious, high profile and the complex. These have ranged from major leisure villages in Wiltshire and Bedfordshire to a national memorial in London, and from a historic dockyard in Kent to a major mixed use regeneration project in London’s Victoria. Further examples of projects we have been involved in can be viewed here.

 

As well as the most challenging projects, we have also handled numerous commercial and residential developments for various major house builders, developers, consultants, clients and funders. The obstacles and opposition at each have meant evolving individual strategies to sustain productive relationships and achieve intended outcomes.

 

Two of the projects we have been involved in have received awards for community engagement: work on St Crispin’s in Northamptonshire was commended by the Prince’s Trust as a demonstration of best practice in community engagement, and our coordination of communications for the team remodelling Trafalgar Square in London received a commendation in the Construction Marketing Awards for the best use of public relations.

 

Our team is probably unique, consisting of former councillors, including planning committee members, a former property developer, former and current journalists, and environmental campaigners. Click here to view more details about our team.

Planning and community consultation, Chelgate Public Relations

 

Our service is tailored to the client, and the particular project requirements, but could include development land assessments, development strategy development, stakeholder and community engagement, community consultation, media relations, issues and crisis management, collateral development and training. Click here to view details of the services we offer.

 

Our innovative online consulation tools, with Google mapping, have proved very effecitve in motivating the usually silent majority in participating. Using the internet also addresses the major obstacle to effective planning consultation: that of the information vacuum and the prevelence of rumour and hearsay undermining the entire process. More ..

 

If you would like to talk to an executive about Chelgate’s development planning and community relations services, please contact:

Michael Hardware on 020 7939 7939 or email.

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