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Infrastructure Planners hear our analysis of post-truth public consultations

Yesterday I spoke to 120 planning/development specialists at Waterfront’s annual Infrastructure Planning Forum. I used it to share the Institute’s analysis that there is a sea-change in the public’s view of participation and engagement. A world of post-truth, fake news and anti-establishment sentiment poses a real threat to evidence-based policy-making. So much so that we […]

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Winner takes all …

Article, Tuesday Topic / Rhion Jones

Public consultations and the numbers game For years, there has been an argument as to how much reliance to place on the statistical results of a pubic consultation. With respondent rates hovering at about 1% for most decisions affecting local public services, it has become customary to dismiss the breakdown of those in favour or

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Gatwick act on noise in a HUGE Airport Consultation week!

Article / Howard Kendall

Tuesday I spent at Gatwick’s Noise Management Board Public Meeting in a week that sees two massive aviation consultations launched – see here & here – but it’s all about Heathrow’s 3rd runway being the Government’s preferred option for SE expansion and a complementary UK airspace policy review, with a special focus on noise and

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Public consultations – in defence of nuance!

Article, Tuesday Topic / Rhion Jones

Are car drivers too scared to look under the bonnet? Those who found Donald Trump’s Inauguration speech last Friday distasteful have been dismissed as part of the political classes that have ostensibly lost touch with large parts of the electorate they are meant to serve. More accurately, what we may be witnessing is the tension

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Environmental Impact Assessments and Public Consultation in a Post-Brexit Climate

Article / Helena

Following the Brexit result from the European Referendum (EU) in June 2016, the United Kingdom (UK) has been plunged into a period of uncertainty. Article 50, which Prime Minister Theresa May looks set to invoke at the end of March 2017, will trigger the two-year leave process from the EU, however, many concerns have been aired

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The defeat of public engagement in 2016 – what’s next?

Article / Remmert Keijzer

Later this week, Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the 45th US President after a very divisive and heated campaign. Earlier this week, Theresa May delivered her long-awaited Brexit speech which has divided Britain through and through; leaving scars that might take years to heal. 2016 has been an intense year for a lot of

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Flawed data hits Local Plan consultation

Article / Howard Kendall

Many councils are currently completing their new Local Plans – and no region is under as much pressure as South East England. However, the consultation in my local area on the Kent/Surrey border is not usually one where controversy strikes! On one side of the border, Kent Sevenoaks Council are about to start their 2015-2035

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Department for Education’s latest consultation fails the best practice test

Article / Rhion Jones

Yet another consultation that isn’t good enough! Not everyone has heard of the Institute for Apprenticeships. In time, perhaps we will. That is because it will have important role to play in the Government’s high-profile ambition of 3 million new apprenticeships by 2020. You might therefore expect that the way in which this new public

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Death of the man who exposed ‘Government blunders’

Article / Rhion Jones

There will be many tributes today to Professor Anthony King of Essex University who has died at the age of 82. He had an outstanding academic career serving as Professor of Government at Essex University for almost half a century, and for years was the recognisable face of election punditry on television. Yet despite a

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Unasked Questions? – Is there an ‘elephant’ in the room?

Article, Tuesday Topic / Rhion Jones

Yes, a cliché, but an effective way of describing issues or problems everyone knows to be there – but are unwilling to discuss. A common criticism of public consultations is that they do not always ask the right questions. Of course, that depends upon whom you ask. Consultees frequently wish to see questions about underlying

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Infrastructure Planners hear our analysis of post-truth public consultations

Winner takes all …

Gatwick act on noise in a HUGE Airport Consultation week!

Public consultations – in defence of nuance!

Environmental Impact Assessments and Public Consultation in a Post-Brexit Climate

The defeat of public engagement in 2016 – what’s next?

Flawed data hits Local Plan consultation

Department for Education’s latest consultation fails the best practice test

Death of the man who exposed ‘Government blunders’

Unasked Questions? – Is there an ‘elephant’ in the room?

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