“Consulting with communities in the development of our new infrastructure projects is extremely important to National Grid and a vital part of the planning process. Camargue plays a crucial role in helping us to achieve this by providing consultative and strategic input and managing the entire consultation delivery process. Their teams are extremely proactive, offering strategic advice and guidance, and deliver a consistently high standard of work.”
Roseanne Battye, Community Relations Manager , National Grid
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Managing consultation for key transmission connection projects in Wales
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Facilitating public engagement at the Royal Welsh Show
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Bespoke newsletters and exhibition materials to communicate National Grid’s work
National Grid
Meeting the energy challenge
With a quarter of the UK’s generating capacity shutting down over the next 10 years, we face a major energy challenge as old coal and nuclear power stations go offline and need to be replaced by new lower carbon forms of energy generation.
This new generation will need connecting to the national electricity network requiring a major programme of infrastructure investment totalling £22 billion over the next five years.
Consultation with local communities is an integral part of the planning process and National Grid is committed to listening to the public’s views and giving them a genuine opportunity to influence the decisions it makes. This involves answering a number of often complex questions. What impact could this work have? What will it look like? Why is it needed? How can I have my say? These are just some of the important questions that Camargue has been helping National Grid to answer.
The communications challenge: to translate a very technical subject into simple and clear messages that can be easily understood by local communities and allow feedback to be provided.
Camargue has already successfully managed several major phases of public exhibitions, including community and stakeholder engagement, for projects across the country.
