Community Planning Charrette Process
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Community Planning Charrette Process

Our dedicated Community Planning team brings a wealth of experience in coordinating and facilitating participatory processes to engage communities, stakeholders, and local authorities in the visioning, planning and design process.

This collaborative process breaks down barriers, accelerates the decision making process and enables local people to play a role in shaping a collective vision.

We have found that the process has long-lasting benefits empowering local people to go on to establish community trusts, nurture social enterprise and organise local initiatives.

A typical Charrette or Community Planning Weekend spans over 5 days with public sessions held on Friday afternoon and Saturday. Community Planning days run over a shorter timescale adopting similar processes.

Community animation in advance of an event will identify key stakeholders and publicise the event.

Commencing with an exhibition, the event then brings the public together in thematic workshops to openly discuss problems, dreams and solutions. These ideas are then further explored in smaller Hands-On Planning sessions and site walkabouts. Each group reports back to everyone present to ensure the sharing and cross fertilisation of ideas.

The Community Planning team then takes all the ideas and information to analyse and evaluate, and prepares an illustrated consensus vision. The outcomes are presented back to the public at a Report Back usually held on the following Tuesday.

The Charrette/Community Planning Weekend forms part of a wider community engagement process and runs in parallel to the design evolution of a project.

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