The Consultation SuitePublic consultation websites that turn plans into conversation
Consultation websites, exhibition boards and questionnaires for planning applications across England, with a report your team can use in the Statement of Community Involvement.
Ashbury, Oxfordshire, Public Consultation Website: Intro & Masterplan
For planning consultants ✦ Developers ✦ Land promoters ✦ Across EnglandEst. 2019 ✦ Squarespace Partner ✦ Boutique studio ✦ Clients worldwidePlanning documents are written for officers. Your consultation is read by neighbours.
Policy references, technical drawings and acronyms make sense to a case officer. To a resident reading on a phone, they can feel like something to resist.
When people can't follow a scheme, they fill the gaps with worry. A community consultation then gathers feedback on paper, by email and in conversation: hard to compare, harder to report.
In the planning documents
On the consultation website
Outline application, all matters reserved except access
Permission in principle for homes here. The detailed design comes back for approval later.
Sustainable drainage systems (SuDS)
How rainwater is slowed, stored and cleaned on the site, so it doesn't add to flooding.
Section 106 contributions
Money the developer pays towards local services, such as school places and road improvements.
Biodiversity net gain
The site must end up with more wildlife habitat than it has today.
What's included
Everything your public consultation needs, designed as one.
Consultation website
A dedicated site for the scheme, open day and night, telling the story from site constraints to masterplan. Live for up to 12 months.
Plans redrawn for people
Site plans, constraints and masterplans, simplified and annotated so residents understand them at a glance.
Exhibition boards
A1 boards that mirror the website, so the event and the screen tell one story.
Leaflets and brochures
Through letterboxes or by email, with a QR code straight to the questionnaire.
One questionnaire, two formats
Printed and online versions ask the same questions, so every response can be compared.
Consultation report
Visits, responses, sentiment and themes, plus the raw data, ready for your Statement of Community Involvement.
Why work with me
Fluent in the built environment
I design websites and graphics for architecture, planning and property clients. My background in landscape architecture means I read a masterplan the way your team does, then redraw it for everyone else.
Communication first
Parish councillors, busy parents, long-standing residents and objectors need different routes through the same information. Every page is shaped around how they actually read.
With you to the report
I stay on hand through the consultation for updates and troubleshooting, then deliver the report when it closes.
A designer who reads the plans as well as the audience.
Ashbury
103
unique visitors in two weeks, peaking the day after the exhibition
9m 35s
average time spent with the proposals
6 in 10
visits made on a phone
100%
of questionnaire respondents found it useful
Public consultation ✦ Oxfordshire ✦ 26 homesBefore
The technical habitat plan, written for ecologists and planning officers.
After
The same site, redrawn for residents, with a plain-English key and clear colours.
Before
A marked-up elevation from the design team.
After
A design-features board residents could read at a glance.
“A bespoke website was created that enabled us to gather valuable feedback following the event, helping to inform our strategy moving forward.”
Website ✦ Boards ✦ ReportA village consultation that people actually read
Website, eight A1 boards, a QR leaflet and one questionnaire in two formats, then the report for the SCI.
Brand ✦ Website ✦ Land and planningA land and planning brand built to be found
Written for developers and legal teams, with two audience journeys and SEO built in from the first wireframe.
The Consultation Suite
Every tier includes support through the consultation and a report at the end.
Printing and distribution are quoted at cost.
For planning consultanciesHand over the public consultation. Your client stays yours.
I run the website, boards and questionnaire to your programme. You get findings ready for your SCI, branded as yours if you prefer.
From brief to report
Launch-ready in three to four weeks from the drawings, then support through the consultation and a report when it closes.
Questions
Something else on your mind? Ask me directly.
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Launch-ready materials usually take three to four weeks from receiving the drawings. Two weeks is possible for tight deadlines, so share your dates early.
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No. Your planning consultant writes the SCI. I give them what it needs: a report with visits, responses, sentiment and themes, plus the raw data.
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Yes. PDFs from your architect, engineer or landscape team are all I need, and I prepare simplified versions for the public.
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Yes: the developer's style, the consultancy's, or a scheme identity created for the project.
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You or your client. Questionnaires carry a privacy notice, and every response is handed over when the consultation closes.
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Up to 12 months is included, so it can run from consultation to submission. Longer is available.
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Yes. A focused website and brochure help present land submitted to a call for sites or promoted through a local plan, as well as schemes heading for a planning application.
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Two invoices: 50% to book your dates and 50% when the consultation goes live. Support and the report are included.
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I'm based in the Midlands and work with planning teams across England, meeting in person in the Midlands, Northamptonshire, Birmingham and London.
Twenty minutes.
A clear next step.
Pick a time
Choose a 20-minute slot and tell me a little about the scheme.
Talk it through
The stage, the dates, the audience and what the planning team needs.
A fixed quote
A recommended tier and a quote within two working days.
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