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Stakeholder Engagement

At WSP, we know that successful projects are underpinned by effective engagement. By empowering different sectors and communities to help shape proposals, we ensure our clients can make informed decisions based on the best available evidence and stakeholder insight.

Our engagement team has a wealth of experience in developing bespoke strategies to engage and communicate with our clients’ target audiences across a range of infrastructure and development projects.

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We identify stakeholders and establish early dialogue to ensure they are part of the process from the start. By engaging early with stakeholders we are able to assist the planning and infrastructure design process to ensure proposed solutions take account of local intelligence and generate wide support. This significantly helps to minimise risk to projects and creates efficiencies in project delivery.

To meet the needs of our clients, customers and interested parties, we provide three core areas of expertise:

  • Engagement - where we develop bespoke and inclusive engagement plans tailored to suit target audiences and local characteristics
  • Consultation - centred on providing clear and concise information to enable consultees to form their views, as well as reducing risk of potential objections
  • Communications – translating technical information into meaningful messages which draw interest and participation from our audiences

 

 An unrivalled breadth of expertise

Our stakeholder engagement experts are part of WSP’s wider Planning Information Management team, which works to secure land for access, construction and development. Experts in land referencing, geospatial services, surveying and land and property valuations, acquisitions and disposals work with the engagement team to offer a complementary suite of services –– from inception to implementation of a project. 

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Land Referencing

As part of the delivery of infrastructure projects, our clients need to identify and engage with the people and organisations who will be affected by the work. This includes owners and occupiers, as well as individuals with other legal rights, restrictions and interests in the land. We support this process, by researching who owns the land and property, then using the information to help gain access to land for surveys, to engage and consult with affected parties and to produce statutory documentation to support a planning application.

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