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In the summer of 2020, Penny Norton, as a member of the Consultation Institute (tCI)’s Environment Working Group, designed a research project for a joint initiative between tCI and APSE (Association for Public Service Excellence).

Communicating Construction: insight, experience and best practice is a collection of essays on PR in construction, each covering a specific aspect of the construction sector and sits alongside Promoting Property: insight, experience and best practice as a guide to the sector, written by those who know it best. It fills a much-needed knowledge gap and has been a real pleasure to edit.

With Promoting Property, published and the height of the first national lockdown, it was great that Women in Property offered to host a webinar based around the book’s content and some of the book’s chapter authors presented on their areas of expertise.

Early in 2020, Penny Norton jointly set up The Consultation Institute’s Environment Working Group which exists to support organisations in engaging on environmental issues.

Promoting Property: insight, experience and best practice is now published by Routledge and is widely available. The book is a collection of essays on PR, each covering a specific aspect of the property sector and is the companion to Communicating Construction: insight, experience and best practice.

This time two weeks ago a housing association might have been running or contributing to a consultation event for a proposed scheme – providing there was enough hand sanitizer to go round.  But what a difference a fortnight makes.  Today all public meetings and construction work is banned, and any ongoing work is taking place ...

Penny Norton contributes a chapter to Regulation of Extractive Industries, to be published by Routledge in 2020.

Penny Norton speaks at the TCPA’s seminar on Getting Public Participation Right following her contribution to the TCPA Practical Guides – Guide 11: People, planning and power which was launched at the event.

I was delighted to speak at the TCPA’s seminar on Getting Public Participation Right yesterday and to have contributed to the TCPA Practical Guides – Guide 11: People, planning and power which was launched at the event. My presentation, ‘What constitutes good public participation?’ was a largely theoretical overview of my knowledge as an Associate ...

Penny Norton has signed a contract with Routledge to produce a guide to property PR.

For any builder involved in development projects, communication with local residents usually starts during the planning process. But it doesn’t end there. Once you’re on site, the immediate community, local groups and potential occupants will all want to understand what’s being built and the timescales involved. They’ll be the first to complain about bad parking, ...

At the end of November, the TCPA published Planning 2020:  the final report of the Raynsford Review of Planning in England.  The report includes some excellent recommendations but will they change policy on consultation in planning? The final report is an incredibly comprehensive and significant assessment of the English planning system by former housing minister ...