Community Engagement

Planning Aid Wales promotes and facilitates meaningful community engagement in the planning process in Wales.

Meaningful community engagement in the planning system can:

• Give people a voice and build their skills, confidence and capacity to influence decisions affecting their local area.
• Improve the quality, appropriateness and relevance of new development.
• Increase pride in and sense of ownership of the built environment.
• Foster collaboration between developers, planners and communities, resulting in better schemes.
• Improve the quality and relevance of planning policy by taking local knowledge into account.
• Reduce conflict, speed up and reduce costs in the development management process.

Click on the links below for more information on:

• Common community engagement tools and techniques
• Case studies on good community engagement practice in planning
• Our community engagement newsletter
• Our community engagement services
• Our upcoming training and networking events

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.