People Places Futures

Consultation "will integrate policies and places" says Minister

Sue Essex, Minister for Finance, Local Government and Public Services, says the consultation process and strategic approach "leads to better integration of policies and places. It identifies linkages both locally and regionally and responds to challenges. It sets a direction of travel recognising that we all need to develop policies which are responsive to the needs of individuals, communities and localities."
Ms Essex was addressing the Royal Society of Architects in Wales conference in Cardiff on Friday November 21.

Run an event yourself

If you wish to use the materials developed for the consultation workshops for your own event, or other discussion, you can download them here.

How we ran the workshops
Notes for Facilitators You may need to adapt for your own purposes.
You will find appropriate cards attached for download to each of the workshop reports. Choose those for the area that you are in.

We suggest that you also read:
The Press release about the consultation process on this site.
The Plan document available here.
Questions and answers on the plan process

Please add any comments or queries by clicking the Comments link under this item.

Using this site

This web site reports on a series of consultation workshops run by a team of consultants led by Kevin Murray and Drew Mackie on behalf of the Wales Spatial Planning Unit The site is designed as a 'blog' which means that items on the main page are in date order. They are also filed under different categories, and archived by date.

First 'dry run' workshop

In order to test the workshop design planned for local events, the consultants and team from the Wales Spatial Plan Unit invited about a dozen people to a 'dry run' event in Cardiff on October 27 2003. You can download the report here (Word) - but please bear in mind that this was a practice session, so the discussions and conclusions were really intended to try out the format rather than provide measured comments on the plan. To help you understand the report, here's what we did.

Plan documents

You can find the Wales Spatial Plan at the official Welsh Assembly Government site and also download some key documents here.
Original plan consultation document September 2001 Download pdf
Other research and meetings in plan development on the Wales Spatial Plan site
Current plan for consultation - in full Download pdf
National objectives from the current plan Download English pdf
National objectives from the current plan Dowload Welsh pdf
Consultation forms for current plan on on the Wales Spatial Plan site
Contact details for Wales Spatial Plan Unit

Programme of consultation events

The consultation programme was launched in October 2003 at two events
North Wales, Llandudno, October 17 2003
South Wales, Cardiff, October 20 2003

Press release on consultation process

Here's the press release produced by the consultation team for release on November 20 2003.
"The Spatial Planning Unit of the Welsh Assembly Government is meeting the challenge of explaining and developing spatial planning through an innovative public engagement process involving workshops, online participation and DIY facilitation kits.
"Launched by Sue Essex in October, the Wales Spatial Plan - People, Places, Futures – highlights objectives of valuing environment, increasing and spreading prosperity, building sustainable communities and achieving sustainable accessibility.
"In order to engage with different local and sectoral interests the Unit is holding a series of workshop events throughout the country, facilitated by a consultancy team led by RTPI past president Kevin Murray and Drew Mackie."