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Local Plan Strategy

Get more people involved in your planning consultations

Use collective knowledge to shape your next local plan and make the changes that really matter to the local community.

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Local Plan Policy Engagement

How we help you

Frustrated by local consultations that feel impersonal and ineffective?  Commonplace can help! Our innovative SaaS platform empowers local authorities and developers to put the community at the heart of the planning process.  With Commonplace's suite of tools for local plan consultations, you can design engaging local planning engagements that truly resonate with residents.  Move beyond traditional methods -  Commonplace fosters a two-way dialogue, encouraging residents to share their ideas and concerns on local development plans in a user-friendly online environment. This fosters a deeper understanding of community needs, leading to more effective local planning engagements and ultimately, stronger, more inclusive development decisions.  Together, let's build closer ties between communities and decision-makers.  Start your free trial of Commonplace today and see the difference it can make in your next local plan consultation.

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    Reach

    Promote and build awareness of your engagements and get more people to participate.

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    Engage

    Collect suggestions and ideas from your community on a range of different topics.

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    Analyse

    Explore and understand real-time community insight with ease.

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    Collaborate

    Continuously engage throughout the process, share updates and build trust.

Plan-making Inform citizens about plans

1. Reach

With a fully equipped engagement hub...

It's easy for visitors to find out all the information about your project with a customisable, east to navigate engagement hub. From breaking news, to your project timeline, to vital details - it's all in one place.

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2. Engage

With ease using our ready made templates

If you're not sure where to start, we have range of solution-specific temaplates created by our engagement experts. Each one has been especially crafted to help you get the best data possible for your project.

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3. Analyse

With the power of GeoCoding

By simply asking a postcode question or running a map survey, you will gather the ward, borough, district, parish and street attached to these locations. You can now take your analysis to the next level and separate your data per area.

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4. Collaborate

By keeping people up to date with developments

Publish news about your project for everyone who visits your Commonplace to see! Updates will automatically send to your subscribed audience as well. Perfect for introducing new phases, sharing insights and announcing events.

+ 14 more Collaborate features

Proud to support 

"The Commonplace platform was the one that stood out the most to us. We definitely think our success is down to the quality of the community engagement that occurred."

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Christian Foster

Head of Programmes - Doncaster Council

"I’m delighted with the results we were able to achieve - in no small part, thanks to the Commonplace platform and the support from the team there.”

Scott Butterfield

Scott Butterfield

Strategy & Policy Research Manager - Blackpool Council

"We want to enable more residents to engage with planning applications so that all sections of our community are helping to shape our town. The innovative and more accessible platform provided by Commonplace allows us to do this, by providing a new visual platform and map tools where members of the public can view.”

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Peter Taylor

Mayor of Watford
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