The paper highlights changes to the planning system in Wales and focuses on Local Planning Authorities requirements to produce a Community Involvement Scheme (CIS).

Community involvement in Wales has a more limited infrastructure than England and the paper appraises different techniques and tools used to involve communities along with examples of specific engagement techniques in Wales including public meetings and planning for REAL.

The planning system in Wales has been subject to review under the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004. The Welsh Assembly Government is responsible for producing the Wales Spatial Plan with the most recent plan published in 2004 providing the context for the planning system in Wales.

A trial event tested proposed methods of consultation to produce the draft plan before the full consultation process was put into practice. This paper provides further details on consultation methods used with examples of good practice to help Local Planning Authorities create local plans in consultation with their local communities.

The paper discusses advantages and disadvantages for the main community engagement techniques including:

Specific community engagement techniques in Wales include:

Strategies need to have genuine community engagement at an early stage of the planning process to enable communities to be fully involved in establishing both the long term vision and the shorter term priorities for action.

Using a range of community consultation techniques can help shape policy as well as demonstrate the merits of a particular development project and process.

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14/02/2006

David Waterhouse, Rachel Walmsley – Town & Country Planning Association

research

Urban Policy > Social inclusion & integration > Community development

Citizens' participation