COMMUNITY CONSULTATION
Winning hearts and minds The art of community consultation revealed
Director of Big Wave PR, Carl Allen, is an experienced planner and community consultation expert; here he discusses how architects and developers should embrace community consultation to aid planning applications and to create better living environments...
Carl Allen is director of Big Wave PR. He is also an experienced planner and community consultation expert.
by the coalition Government aims to create a simplified and inclusive planning system that
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he recent introduction of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF)
will encourage sustainable economic growth. A new planning requirement for ‘significant sized’ schemes has also been introduced, architects and developers will now have to effectively engage in community consultation at the earliest stages of the planning process. The NPPF strengthens the role of local communities in planning, and the emphasis will be on developers, architects and planning agents to work with local people to create new developments that will be welcomed into the community. In the past developers have
paid lip service to consulting a community prior to making a planning application, but the days of renting the cold and draughty village hall to display a few sales boards and then submitting the planning application one week later are well and truly gone. The NPPF and localism has brought about change and there is no going back for architects and their clients. Communities need to be given a genuine opportunity for their voice to be heard and given the chance to influence the proposed development.
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