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This document
provides guidance on how to conduct effective community engagement.
It is geared towards local and State environmental planning
practitioners and anyone interested in improving community
engagement in the New South Wales planning and development
system. The document describes community engagement as a tool
to consult the public to develop better decisions and policies.
The term community engagement broadly captures
public processes in which the general public and other interested
parties are invited to contribute to particular proposals
or policy changes.
A continuum is
provided to describe the different levels of public impact.
Readers will find this helpful for understanding the various
typologies of community engagement. It is also helpful for
deciding at what level of impact the reader hopes to engage
the community.
Part
B of the document describes the process of engagement.
It outlines nine
practice principles of engagement used by the NSW Planning
system.
The practice principles are used for effective
public consultation but could be useful for guiding community
engagement strategies for local action.
The Five-Step Engagement Planning Cycle used
by NSW Planning explains how to plan, organize, implement,
and evaluate any engagement process. Each step is described
in detail, questions to consider under each stage are outlined,
and ways to go about answering those questions are provided.
The focus of this cycle is on community consultation but it
is adaptable creating a community engagement strategy for
local action.
A description of community
engagement techniques and tools is provided. A table is
provided to clearly illustrate how each technique matches
the categories of engagement.
83 potential sources of information are provided
at the end of the document. A quick summary table is used
to organize and display the sources.
Source: PlanningNSW, Community Engagement
in the NSW Planning System. Sydney, Australia: Department
of Planning. 2003
Full source available here: www.iplan.nsw.gov.au/engagement/intro/print.php
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