Water Planning Portal How To Guides
Planning Tools How To
Review the "How To" for the suite of existing and developed planning tools that provide practical support to water planners.
How to conduct a Public Meeting
Public meetings are held to engage a wide audience in information sharing and discussion.
Public meetings increase awareness of an issue or proposal, and can be a starting point for, or an ongoing means of engaging, further public involvement.
How to conduct Photovoice
Photovoice aims to add a visual element to participatory processes, and can assist in engaging the community in planning and policy issues.
Photovoice provides tangible evidence of the visual aspects of an issue or proposal (for example, before and after photographs of an eroded beach), and provides a visual record of the suggestions and decisions.
How to develop Newspaper Inserts
Newspaper inserts aim to reach and inform the majority of people in a targetted geographic area about an issue or proposal.
Newspaper inserts will increase awareness of a proposal or issue, even though many inserts will not be read.
How to develop an Information Hotline
An Information Hotline aims to deliver accurate, consistent information over the telephone to those who wish or need to know about an issue or event. An Information Hotline can ensure that those who need to know are informed quickly, easily and efficiently.
How to establish a Key Contact
Information contacts provide a single, well-informed source from which the public can obtain information. Information contacts should ensure good quality, correct and consistent information is given to all enquirers.
How to conduct Key Stakeholder Interviews
Stakeholder interviews aim to elicit detailed information and opinions on an issue through wide-ranging discussion rather than specific questioning.
Stakeholder interviews provide a broad overview of the interviewees' opinions about a specific topic that may reveal hidden concerns or ideas that would not be expressed in response to a set number of specific questions.
How to conduct a Focus Group
Focus groups aim to discover what are the key issues that are of concern for selected groups. Discovering these issues can help determine which of a number of options is the preferred way forward, or to determine what are the concerns that would prevent a proposal going ahead. The focus group may also be undertaken to discover preliminary issues that are of concern in a group or community, and on which to base further research or consultation.
Focus groups should deliver detailed knowledge of the issues that concern a specific demographic or community.
How to conduct Deliberative Opinion Polls
Deliberative Opinion Polls aim to develop well-informed core group representatives, who have been privy to good quality information ans who can take this information back to share within the community.
Deliberative Opinion Polls will deliver a report which reflects informed public opinion on an issue or proposal. Such reports may then be distributed to the wider community via the popular media.
How to conduct an Expert Panel
Expert panels allow citizens to hear a variety of informed ('expert') viewpoints from which to decide on recommendations or courses of action in relation to an issue or proposal.
Expert panels help participants to come to agreement on an issue, or to develop a series of recommendations on a proposal or community environmental issue. Such recommendations or proposals can then be forwarded to decision-making bodies.
How to develop Displays and Exhibits
Displays and exhibits use drawings, maps, models or audio representations of community issues and interests to inform the community, and to help to engage community members in the process of planning and decision-making about an event, proposal or issue.
Displays and exhibits develop more concrete concepts of proposals or developments, and, where these provide options for interaction, provide public opinions and feedback that can be incroporated into the planning and decision-making process.
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