Shaping Places- Building Support

The UK has set an ambitious target to deliver 1.5 million homes, but meeting this goal is increasingly challenged by local opposition, planning delays and rising delivery risk. As schemes come forward, developers face a persistent imbalance in the planning process, where a small, vocal minority dominates consultation and supportive voices remain largely unheard, undermining confidence and slowing progress.

This interactive webinar will explore how the industry can rethink community engagement to address this challenge, focusing on new approaches that identify and amplify genuine local support to build a credible public mandate. Drawing on practical experience, the discussion will examine how the industry can move beyond traditional consultation models that often exacerbate risk, towards strategies that unlock consent and increase the likelihood of first-time approval.

The session will also consider what this shift means in practice: how engagement can be used more strategically at key planning stages, how a robust…