Engagement is a range of activity for how we work with our stakeholders. This can be through educating and informing them of highways improvements, seeking local insight through public surveys and holding drop-in events.
For our latest Bus Service Improvement Plan (BSIP) schemes, we have been speaking to the public, community figures, organisations and businesses, and inviting them to take part in our feedback process. This engagement is considered vital alongside technical testing, monitoring and surveys. We consider all these data sets in the round in order to make recommendations for the design of each scheme.
We listen and consider all information available to us during this process. As a result, we might move forward with an original proposal, revise a concept design, identify alternative measures where feasible, or not progress with schemes that don't deliver the intended benefits.
A final design then has to undergo a rigorous, two-stage council approval process before it can be built. The first scheme approval stage is a consultation with the BSIP Formal Board and Executive Member. The second and final approval stage is an Executive Member Decision.