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Community Engagement

Strategic Land Promotion

Energy and Infrastructure

Retail Commerical and mixed-use

Housing

Planningconsultation.com is our

client engagement platform

We host our clients’ current projects here

Each project is separate and follows a template to ensure consistency. It is a flexible platform catering for simple ‘base’ websites for the early stages of a project, to more interactive ones as the project evolves and the detail emerges, through to the full planning consultation ahead of an application. 

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Chelgate Local has been providing political and community engagement services to its clients for over 35 years.

About

We support developers, housebuilders, land promoters, and landowners through the plan-making and planning application processes, ensuring effective communication and engagement at every stage. 

We were among the first planning public affairs consultancies to recognise the potential of the internet not only for information dissemination but also for effective engagement with communities and their political representatives.

We combine online strategies with innovative proactive research tools to mobilise the usually silent majority, ensuring we have the true consensus views of a community, not just those of the vocal minority.

artwork from previous projects

Projects include:

  • New settlements
  • Urban extensions
  • Solar farms 
  • Sustainable ‘climate positive’ developments
  • Leisure villages
  • Estuary barrages
  • Regeneration projects
  • National memorials and squares

PIONEERING

engagement

First

In the late 90s and early 00s, we pioneered the use of the internet for engagement purposes.

We uploaded some of the first electronic press rooms for projects such as the remodelling of Trafalgar Square and the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial in Hyde Park, London. For the North London Waste Authority, we leveraged the internet to engage with a catchment area of approximately 1.9 million people about the future of waste management and recycling, including monitoring public sentiment on various issues.

Effective

two-way communications

Focus

Project websites play an important role.

As the internet evolved, it provided a truly effective channel for two-way accessible communications, allowing for useful and productive engagement with all audiences.

Project websites are not only there for information dissemination, they are portals where questions can be asked, where visitors can register for updates, and where comments can be made and feedback provided. 

Counter rumour and hearsay

They become the focus of consultation: a reliable source of unequivocal information, countering the usual rumour and hearsay which always emerges, especially with controversial projects.  

get in touch

contact

If you have a project which requires political and community engagement, or would benefit from being hosted on our platform, please do get in touch.

For more information about Chelgate Local, please go to our website.