Stakeholder engagement and strategic communications

Successful infrastructure and development projects are underpinned by effective community, stakeholder and political engagement. By empowering, communities, businesses, politicians and institutions to engage in the conversation about development, our stakeholder engagement and strategic communications teams ensure our clients can respond to ideas and challenges based on robust data and insight from consultation.

We believe in the power of effective community and stakeholder engagement to help our clients capture local sentiment, foster collaboration and deliver social value and stewardship.

Garrett Doran Technical Director, Stakeholder engagement and strategic communications, WSP

Garrett Doran Technical Director, Stakeholder engagement and strategic communications, WSP

Together we create…more effective conversations about development

Our stakeholder engagement and strategic communications teams work with those potentially impacted by infrastructure and development. We help create, negotiate and implement solutions that capture local sentiment and build advocacy towards schemes and projects.

Effective engagement through strategic communications minimises risk and promotes collaboration. Using WSP’s technical expertise and experience to underpin our advice, we encourage participation in the design and planning processes from the outset. This includes:

Engagement: we develop bespoke and inclusive public engagement plans to collaborate and build relationships with communities and stakeholders,
Consultation: centred on providing clear, accessible and engaging information to enable consultees to get involved and form their views,
Communications: translating technical information into meaningful messages which draw interest and participation from our audiences,
Political engagement: strategic stakeholder management and mapping to understand the role of local representatives in development.

Our collaboration, flexibility, responsiveness and creativity means we integrate our teams effectively to add value to clients’ programmes. We do this through strategic and robust consultation from day one, sharing knowledge and insight at every stage to achieve more together.

We’re here to create opportunities for positive, constructive conversations and negotiations that lead to the creation of quality places and spaces. Both social and investment value can be generated from effective dialogue around development; our passion is in helping to unlock these impactful relationships and get positive results.

Katie Jackson Head of Engagement, WSP

Katie Jackson Head of Engagement, WSP

Our projects

From stakeholder relationship management to community engagement and public consultations; find out more about the projects we are delivering for clients.

WSP is the UK’s leading planning and consenting specialist

WSP is the UK’s leading planning and consenting consultant with over 500 specialists in planning, environmental assessment, land services and stakeholder engagement.
This comprehensive set of services gives us the insight and experience to help develop, negotiate and deliver our clients’ consenting needs. Find out about our core services:

Strategic stakeholder management: who we work with

Our stakeholder engagement and strategic communications teams have a wealth of experience in developing bespoke strategies to engage and communicate with our client’s target audiences, across a range of infrastructure and development projects.

Effective engagement and analysis with digital solutions

Traditional stakeholder and strategic communications practices are no longer enough to form a true picture of public sentiment to consultations. WSP’s multi-disciplinary offer means we can apply the latest technological expertise to your project, paired with our experience in effective consultation, engagement and strategic communications.