| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Gunnersbury Park | |
| Posted by: | Vanessa Smith | |
| Date/Time: | 24/06/18 11:34:00 |
| Consultation Charter 1. We will normally decide to consult residents and other stakeholders whenever a decision will directly affect them and when they might have a reasonable expectation that they should be involved. 2. Consultation plans for all major consultations will be subject to consideration by a Consultation Advisory Panel to be chaired by the Lead Member for Citizen Engagement. 3. All our consultations will be published on the Council’s website so that residents and stakeholders can easily see what is up for decision and how to participate. 4. We will provide a named contact for each consultation and include their details on the consultation documents so that residents and stakeholders know who they can speak to. 5. Consultation plans will be produced for all major consultations. They will include what we are consulting about, and why, who we are consulting, how we will consult them, the timetable for the consultation and who will make the final decision. 6. Whenever practical, the Council will involve key stakeholders or representatives of them in shaping what we will consult on or how we will consult. 7. Where the Council has a preferred option, we will clearly state this in the consultation documents and explain how and why that preference was chosen. Where specific options have been rejected, we will explain why we do not consider them practical. 8. We will allow enough time for consultees to consider and respond to the consultation and the information we have provided. 9. Where groups of people with characteristics protected by the Equality Act 20101 may be particularly affected, the consultation plan will identify who they are and how they will be involved, and an Equality Analysis will be included in the final report. 10. Consultations will conform to all statutory requirements and, where relevant, to those set out in our Consultation Framework, Statement of Community Involvement and the Hounslow Compact. 11. Minor consultations will meet all statutory requirements and the ‘Seven Standards of Informing, Engaging and Consulting’ set out in our Consultation Framework. 12. All members of the public and other stakeholders are welcome to respond to a consultation whether or not they have been specifically invited to do so. 13. We will carefully consider all responses to each consultation, and publish the results, detailing the responses received, and explaining how we have taken these into account in arriving at a decision. 14. Any complaints about the consultation will be published so that decision-makers can assess the effectiveness of the consultation before making their decision. |