Planning communications services
PR support for neighbourhood planning and development orders
The Localism Act 2011 has given the planning system its biggest shake-up in 50 years, letting communities shape their own planning policies and giving people more power to determine how their neighbourhoods grow and change. With 4000 new statutory Neighbourhood Plans expected to come online within the next decade, covering areas from spread out groups of villages to small urban areas, this will affect how all developers do business and what will be necessary to win planning permission. Developers who are willing to get involved early in the neighbourhood planning process will take advantage over competitors who cannot adapt the way they do business to the new localist regime.
Although this is a brand new and evolving policy environment, Chelgate’s 23 years of experience in stakeholder and community engagement means that no company is better placed to help you navigate the new localist planning environment.
We can help you get involved in the Neighbourhood Planning process in areas where you have any interest in developing over the long term. By using intelligent communications strategies, an understanding of localism and local knowledge, we can help you promote your land sites to neighbourhood forums and parish councils to make sure that your ambitions are taken into account as local people allocate sites for development. We can also help you explain how your development will support the community’s own aspirations.
More than ever before, stakeholder and community engagement will have to be an integral part of how you plan your development projects as well as how you implement them.
Our Neighbourhood Planning services can include:
- Local assessments of neighbourhood planning environment
- Stakeholder audits of local communities
- Facilitating engagement between developer and the community
- Promoting land sites to neighbourhood planning forums
- Community consultation
