Local Planning Authorities
With Go Vocal’s engagement platform, you can make public participation in local planning more interactive, efficient, and meaningful. Discover how you can elevate your engagement projects and make residents’ voice count.
Go Vocal’s platform, designed for all stages of the planning process and co-developed with Local Planning Authorities and funding from DLUHC’s Proptech Engagement Fund, empowers LPAs across the UK to increase participation. With our set of 15+ engagement tools, you can involve residents in shaping the places they live, play, and work in, and increase transparency in projects such as:
Explore our case studies to discover tips and best practices from successful initiatives leveraging our digital platform.
Cambridge experienced first-hand the power of Go Vocal's AI assistant in the analysis of open-ended text responses during their Design Code consultation for northern Cambridge neighbourhoods. Discover how it helped the team save 10 precious hours and opened the door for including more free-text questions in future consultations, enriching the depth and quality of community engagement.
Havant Borough embarked on an ambitious journey to involve residents in creating its Local Plan: “Building a Better Future”. Apart from getting valuable insights from as many people as possible, the team also wanted to set the stage for continuous engagement. By leveraging the CitizenLab platform, Havant was able to set up a more collaborative, inclusive, and efficient process.
"By using our online engagement platform for this consultation, we knew we would be able to reach more residents in a more cost-effective way than by doing anything else.”
"The Go Vocal platform has extensive information-sharing capabilities. In addition, the ability for residents to comment on the ideas and start a discussion sparks lively conversations.”
“In addition to increasing the quantity of participants, we were able to improve the quality of our community conversations by answering direct questions and responding to concerns promptly, before misinformation and rumor mills could overtake the dialogue.”
“When you drill down into the functionality you see that CitizenLab is more flexible, visually appealing, and user-friendly... I feel the way CitizenLab’s platform is set up fosters a positive participation environment [and] the fact that the back office is so easy to use has been a massive bonus because it doesn’t scare anyone away, no matter their comfort level with technology.”
This guide will walk you through the basics of digital community engagement and is meant to serve as a resource for beginners and seasoned practitioners alike. After all, setting a solid foundation for your community engagement initiative is key to its success.
Ensuring that your community engagement is successful and worthwhile requires full buy-in and continuous support from all levels of the community, starting with your organisation and eventually also your residents. It comes down to creating a culture of engagement. This doesn’t have to be daunting, and in the long run it will save you time, money, and headaches.
In this webinar, you'll hear how West Oxfordshire successfully leveraged our platform to enhance the resident engagement journey and improve input analysis with our AI Sensemaking module.
