Thoughtful advice & support every step of the way

Paver Smith can help you scope and manage your stakeholder engagement programme around any planning application – and underpin it with a robust media relations plan that uses supporters’ commentary to provide a helpful backdrop of positive press coverage.

Specifically, we will help you:

• Scope out all stakeholders/community influencers
• Identify known agendas
• Most affected neighbours – what are their issues?
• Identify local politicians and the make-up of the local council and its planning committee
• Rank stakeholders by order of priority
• Stress test the draft stakeholder engagement plan with representative members of the community to ensure it’s on target
• Develop a comms plan to ensure effective communication with all stakeholders – directly and via the media
• Develop a public affairs plan to ensure effective engagement with civic leaders
• Engage with local ward councillors and those on the planning committee
• Facilitate one-to-one and group meetings with most affected neighbours
• Focus groups and workshops: devise programme and manage delivery
• Design public exhibition boards and all comms collateral
• Manage the invitation process for events
• Source materials for events
• On-going engagement with all stakeholder groups
• Organise and manage development site recces
• Undertake site recces for venues where we’re holding public meetings
• Walk the course visits with journalists and stakeholders to understand the site from their perspective
• Provide a full report for the client to submit as part of its planning application to demonstrate effective community engagement