Mini-Holland

Mini Holland •
Consultation, engagement and involvement, continued
ownership of the developments’ elements such as the design
of pocket parks or the location of cycle parking
Identify contentious issues: Early warning of contentious
issues allows time to develop a response and mitigate risks
Raise awareness: Opportunity to explain the wider benefits of
cycling and the specific benefits of the individual proposals
Enhance reputation: Demonstrates that the council and our
delivery partners to be proactively seeking and responding to
our stakeholders and the public
Public expectation: People expect to be consulted on major
publicly-funded schemes which could change the places they
live, work and travel
Monitoring: Providing the community with mechanisms to
provide feedback on successes and areas for improvement
including the reporting of carriageway conditions. Our
implementation approach using a mix of temporary and
permanent measures will mean we can react and make
changes
Statutory consultation: The scheme will involve many changes
to waiting and loading restrictions, which require statutory
consultation with stakeholders, focusing on those who live and
work in the affected areas. Our approach to consultation using
experimental changes in the first instance will hopefully mean
that concerns associated with the proposed changes can be
monitored and seen ‘in real life’ so informed decisions can be
made by all
• Tailored approaches for minority ethnic and other hard to
reach groups
• Targeted business engagement and consultation
spaces in the public realm that could be improved as part of the
town centre improvements or spaces that due to road closures
can now be converted to pocket parks or food growing.
Early engagement
We want to build on the on-going engagement work we
have conducted with the community in order to continue the
momentum that has gathered during the development of the
proposal. We will hold a series of key stakeholder meetings
and awareness events as soon as funding is confirmed
including:
• A celebration of cycling in the borough
• A workshop with councillors including training on the new
approach to providing for cyclists
• Meetings and design reviews with key stakeholders
• Route rides and
• Ward forum presentations
• Visits to all schools in the area immediately affected by
the proposals
• A series of business workshops
We will provide a variety of media for feedback and comment
including:
• Email
• Social media
• Dedicated engagement phone line
• Displays with feedback opportunities in libraries and other
public buildings
Phase Two – Public Consultation
The public consultation will be developed to work in parallel
with the delivery of the overall mini Holland programme. As
previously discussed we will be gathering the views of the
local community from an early stage and feeding this into the
scoping and design development.
It is vital from the outset that we manage expectations and
clearly explain what we will be consulting on, when and
why. Whilst we want to hear the views of all on the various
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These events will focus on both the mini Holland programme
and the other related opportunities, benefits and issues; and a
broader engagement on cycling in the borough.
proposals in order to ensure the consultation is manageable
When will we engage and consult?
We will manage a number of stages as streams of engagement
and consultation with stakeholders including:
• Engagement with existing cyclists who will be our
champions and trail blazers
• Engagement with future cyclists
• Engagement with schools
Due to the use of experimental/temporary measures,
particularly in the town centre and surrounding area our
engagement will be an on-going conversation throughout the
delivery programme. The early engagement stage will focus
on gathering views of the community on the wider scope of
proposals to encourage involvement.
This will include letting residents and businesses identify unloved
and effective we will:
• Consult informally across the town centre (including the
villages) and the secondary town centre areas on proposals
• Use experimental traffic orders that can be modified with an
on-going consultation during the experimental period
• On cycle routes consult affected frontages and adjoining
side roads
• Conduct statutory consultations for changes to waiting
and loading restrictions that require amendments to Traffic
Management Orders (TMO)