Local Planning Authorities

Better engagement, better data, better local and neighbourhood plans

With Go Vocal’s engagement platform, you can make public participation in local planning more interactive, efficient, and meaningful. Discover how you can elevate your engagement projects and make residents’ voice count.

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Go Vocal’s platform, designed for all stages of the planning process and co-developed with Local Planning Authorities and funding from DLUHC’s Proptech Engagement Fund, empowers LPAs across the UK to increase participation. With our set of 15+ engagement tools, you can involve residents in shaping the places they live, play, and work in, and increase transparency in projects such as:

Local Plan Design Code
Local Plan policies
Site allocation
Neighbourhood plans

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How Go Vocal can help you as a local planning authority

A complete toolbox for planners

Mapping, document annotation, surveys, and 10+ other methods for versatile, interactive engagement
Supports hybrid engagement with offline data digitisation

Effortless project management and collaboration

Create engaging projects with our easy-to-use content builder
A central hub where your team collaborates seamlessly, even across different agencies
Different user roles tailored to various levels of responsibilities

ESRI integration and GIS file uploads

Seamlessly integrates with ESRI for enhanced mapping and data visualisation capabilities

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Case studies

500+ local governments trust Go Vocal with their community engagement projects.

Explore our case studies to discover tips and best practices from successful initiatives leveraging our digital platform.

constructive engagement on a contentious topic

City of Benicia, CA

Population:

30,000

Supporting the City of Benicia, CA, in constructive engagement on a contentious topic

The City of Benicia faced a significant challenge in developing an industrial safety ordinance to regulate a local oil refinery. This was a highly polarizing issue, with conflicting concerns about public health and safety, and the economic impact on the community. Della Olm, Management Analyst & Fire PIO, discusses the city’s efforts to create a space for constructive dialogue, inclusive engagement, and transparency, and how Go Vocal’s engagement platform helped.

Havant Borough: harnessing digital engagement in Local Planning

Havant Borough, UK

Population:

124.200

Havant Borough: harnessing digital engagement in Local Planning

Havant Borough embarked on an ambitious journey to involve residents in creating its Local Plan: “Building a Better Future”. Apart from getting valuable insights from as many people as possible, the team also wanted to set the stage for continuous engagement. By leveraging the CitizenLab platform, Havant was able to set up a more collaborative, inclusive, and efficient process.

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Guide

The beginner’s guide to digital community engagement

This guide will walk you through the basics of digital community engagement and is meant to serve as a resource for beginners and seasoned practitioners alike. After all, setting a solid foundation for your community engagement initiative is key to its success.

Blog

5 steps to build a culture of engagement

Ensuring that your community engagement is successful and worthwhile requires full buy-in and continuous support from all levels of the community, starting with your organisation and eventually also your residents. It comes down to creating a culture of engagement. This doesn’t have to be daunting, and in the long run it will save you time, money, and headaches.

Webinar

Engaging the public on planning policy: raising the bar with AI

In this webinar, you'll hear how West Oxfordshire successfully leveraged our platform to enhance the resident engagement journey and improve input analysis with our AI Sensemaking module.

What local authorities achieve with our platform

Testimonials and milestones that matter

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"By using our online engagement platform for this consultation, we knew we would be able to reach more residents in a more cost-effective way than by doing anything else.”

Simon Dale

Interim Director of the Department of Place and Growth, Wokingham

"The Go Vocal platform has extensive information-sharing capabilities. In addition, the ability for residents to comment on the ideas and start a discussion sparks lively conversations.”

London Borough of Newham

Resident Engagement and Participation team

“In addition to increasing the quantity of participants, we were able to improve the quality of our community conversations by answering direct questions and responding to concerns promptly, before misinformation and rumor mills could overtake the dialogue.”

Chelsey Aprill

Office of Planning & Community Development (WA, USA)

Newham achieves

400+%

growth in resident engagement

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Wokingham Borough engages

9.000

residents

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Our Government Success Managers were rated

8.6/10

for their dedicated support

Go Vocal helped Havant

cut complexity and boost participation

in Local Plan consultation

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Better engagement, better data, better local and neighbourhood plans

How Go Vocal can help you as a local planning authority

A complete toolbox for planners

Effortless project management and collaboration

ESRI integration and GIS file uploads

Case studies

Supporting the City of Benicia, CA, in constructive engagement on a contentious topic

Havant Borough: harnessing digital engagement in Local Planning

Mixed resources

What local authorities achieve with our platform

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