Community consultation is a core area of our business and we have significant expertise researching community attitudes to commercial or government developments that may affect their local area.
We have researched community attitudes to issues such as:
- Refineries and smelters being expanded or shut down
- The proposed development of major industrial plants
- Building of major motorways and introduction of electronic tolling
- Location of vehicle emission stacks near new tunnel entrances and exits
- New public transport systems
- Sources and pricing of utilities such as water and electricity
- Upgrading electricity transmission lines, requiring much larger poles and more electricity wires
- Deeping of ports
- Building of new suburbs
In the most fundamental terms, our community consultation work focuses on:
- Understanding the context of the issue and where it rates in the community’s hierarchy of concerns
- Assessing knowledge of the issue and current sources of information
- Understanding levels of support and opposition and the reasons behind existing attitudes
- Identifying ways of shifting community sentiment using different messages and communications vehicles